Blackberry wins keyboard ruling

Troubled smartphone maker BlackBerry has won an early round in its legal battle against an iPhone keyboard made by a star-tup co-founded by American Idol host Ryan Seacrest.

A court order bans Mr Seacrest’s company, Typo Products LLC, from selling its iPhone keyboard in the US while BlackBerry Ltd proceeds with a patent infringement case against the product. BlackBerry contends Typo Products ripped off the design from the physical keyboards used for typing on BlackBerry’s phones.