After suing Nokia in 2017 and Facebook this year, BlackBerry has now reportedly filed a patent-infringement lawsuit in opposition to Snapchat’s mum or dad firm Snap. Earlier this month, BlackBerry sued Facebook and its WhatsApp and Instagram apps, alleging that they copied know-how and options from the BlackBerry Messenger. Final , BlackBerry had sued Nokia, alleging infringement of patents referring to 3G and 4G wi-fi communications know-how. Now, BlackBerry is reportedly going after Snap, accusing it of infringing on six patents.

As per a Bloomberg report, BlackBerry’s grievance in opposition to Snap claims the latter infringed upon six patents issued in 2012 and 2014, two of that are among the many seven patents that have been within the lawsuit in opposition to Fb. In a report, Mashable noted that the patents included map and UI enchancment for cell gadgets and fashionable cell promoting methods. Curiously, the map enchancment refers to Snapchat’s launch of Snap Map.

A spokesperson for BlackBerry instructed Mashable in an announcement, “BlackBerry has a well-earned popularity for safeguarding and securing our clients’ information and privateness. For greater than a we’ve been working to determine a dialogue with Snap as we consider there are way more alternatives for partnership than disagreement. Whereas we proceed to carry this door open, we even have a robust declare that Snap infringed on our mental property, harmed our shareholders, and we’ve an obligation to pursue acceptable authorized cures.”

Notably, the lawsuit has been filed within the US District Courtroom for the Central District of California. The submitting has been posted by a journalist on Scribd. Within the submitting, comparisons of illustrations from BlackBerry’s patents and screenshots taken from Snapchat will be seen. In the meantime, there was no official phrase from Snap concerning the difficulty.

BlackBerry has been profitable in its spree of lawsuits. Final Qualcomm had agreed to pay BlackBerry $814.9 million (roughly Rs. 5,300 crores) to resolve arbitration over royalty funds. In October 2017, BlackBerry introduced a confidential settlement with Blu Merchandise, a Florida-based maker of low-cost cell gadgets it had additionally sued for patent infringement. In the meantime, the Nokia case continues to be pending in federal court docket in Delaware.

Litigation over patent infringement certainly appears to be part of BlackBerry CEO John Chen’s technique for earning money for the corporate, which has misplaced market share within the smartphone promote it as soon as dominated.