BLACKBERRY SUES TWITTER FOR PATENT INFRINGEMENT

Former smartphone maker Blackberry has filed a lawsuit against Twitter, accusing the social media company of infringing on patents relating to push notifications and mobile advertising, among other things. In the lawsuit, Blackberry, which hails itself as a “pioneer” of mobile messaging and a “leading innovator” in the field of mobile communications, states that Twitter was using its intellectual property to make up for being a “relative latecomer to the mobile messaging world”.It alleges that Twitter “created mobile messaging applications that co-opt Blackberry’s innovations, using a number of innovative user interface and functionality enhancing features that made Blackberry’s products such a critical and commercial success in the first place