Blackberry flogs its patent portfolio

Stefan Mileschin · 2nd February 2022, 06:50

For whom the bell trolls

BlackBerry announced a sale of its prized patent portfolio for $600 million to "Catapult IP Innovations Inc.," a new company BlackBerry describes as "a special purpose vehicle formed to acquire the BlackBerry patent assets."

BlackBerry says the patents are for "mobile devices, messaging and wireless networking." These are going to be the patents surrounding BlackBerry's phones, QWERTY keyboards, and BlackBerry Messenger (BBM).

BlackBerry recently weaponised these patents against Facebook Messenger in 2018, which covered ideas like muting a message thread and displaying notifications as a numeric icon badge.

BlackBerry when it was called RIM went after companies like Handspring and Good Technology in the early 2000s.

If the name "Catapult IP Innovations" didn't give it away, weaponising BlackBerry's patents is the most obvious outcome of this deal.

https://fudzilla.com/news/54299-blac...tent-portfolio

2nd February 2022, 06:50	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 148,797	Blackberry flogs its patent portfolio For whom the bell trolls BlackBerry announced a sale of its prized patent portfolio for $600 million to "Catapult IP Innovations Inc.," a new company BlackBerry describes as "a special purpose vehicle formed to acquire the BlackBerry patent assets." BlackBerry says the patents are for "mobile devices, messaging and wireless networking." These are going to be the patents surrounding BlackBerry's phones, QWERTY keyboards, and BlackBerry Messenger (BBM). BlackBerry recently weaponised these patents against Facebook Messenger in 2018, which covered ideas like muting a message thread and displaying notifications as a numeric icon badge. BlackBerry when it was called RIM went after companies like Handspring and Good Technology in the early 2000s. If the name "Catapult IP Innovations" didn't give it away, weaponising BlackBerry's patents is the most obvious outcome of this deal. https://fudzilla.com/news/54299-blac...tent-portfolio

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