Facebook Sues BlackBerry for Infringing on Voice Messaging Patents

BlackBerry'southward bitter patent feud with Facebook has at present taken a new turn. Back in March, BlackBerry sued Facebook alleging that the instant messaging functionalities offered by Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp borrow on BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) features patented years ago. Facebook has at present retaliated past filing a patent infringement lawsuit of its own against BlackBerry, accusing the company of stealing Facebook's voice messaging engineering, alongside a host of other patented communication features.

According to a report from Bloomberg, Facebook has filed a 118-page complaint confronting BlackBerry before a federal court in San Francisco, in which the social media giant has defendant BlackBerry of infringing on Facebook'southward patented voice messaging technology and a few other intellectual properties.

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Facebook seeks unspecified damages from BlackBerry for infringing on a total of six patents owned by the company. Facebook seeks to concord BlackBerry accountable for stealing a patented engineering which improves the graphics, video and audio delivery process on a mobile device, aslope a couple of other innovations which centralize the tracking and assay of GPS information.

Facebook'due south lawsuit comes a few of weeks after a federal judge overruled Facebook's request to dismiss the patent claims made by BlackBerry in their ongoing court battle, which too involves Snapchat. Blackberry had originally accused Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Snapchat of infringing on the message timestamp feature which was pioneered by the Canadian company.

While the federal guess granted a move past Snap to dismiss some of the independent claims made by BlackBerry in the lawsuit, Facebook'southward request was not accepted. Facebook argued that BlackBerry's complaint only covers a vague concept or ideas that can't be protected under patent laws, however, the court ruled that Facebook's arguments are not solid enough to warrant dismissing the majority of BlackBerry's patent claims.