A U.S. district court has fined TV host Ryan Seacrest's Typo Products  for violating an injunction barring it from selling a $99 iPhone case found to have likely infringed on BlackBerry patents. U.S. District Judge William Orrick in San Francisco ordered Typo on Wednesday to pay BlackBerry $860,600 (£567,303) in sanctions, plus attorneys' fees and costs incurred in connection with Typo's violation of the injunction. BlackBerry had filed a suit in January 2014 against Typo, co-founded by 'American Idol' host Seacrest, alleging that the physical keyboard it makes for some of Apple's iPhone devices infringed on the Canadian smartphone maker's design patents.
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Typo Keyboard cost $99 (£60)and launched at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas
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US presenter Ryan Seacrest is a founder and said to invested $1million
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Keyboard fits over the bottom of the phone adding an inch to the length
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Blackberry says keyboard infringes on its design patents
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Judge ordered Typo on to pay BlackBerry $860,600 (£567,303) in sanctions, plus attorneys' fees and costs
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The judge agreed it was unclear to what extent @placeholder had been damaged, but added that 'Typo's not so clever attempts to evade the court's preliminary injunction' were quite transparent.
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'The amount of sanctions awarded is only a third of what @placeholder sought and is directly tied to additional revenue that Typo could have expected from its illegal conduct,' said judge Orrick, in the order.