WASHINGTON — The company co-founded by American Idol host Ryan Seacrest has agreed to stop selling iPhone cases that made typing on touch screens similar to using a BlackBerry.
In a news release released by BlackBerry, the company says Typo will “permanently discontinue selling anywhere in the world keyboards for smartphones and mobile devices with a screen size of less than 7.9 inches.”
Other details of the settlement were confidential, according to the statement.
The Typo2, which sold for between $75 and $99, snapped onto an iPhone, and provided a physical keyboard for those frustrated by typing on the Apple touch screen.
In 2014 BlackBerry won a preliminary injunction for Typo’s first product, and was ordered to pay $860,000 in sanctions.
Seacrest helped launch Typo in 2013 and was named in the 2014 lawsuit, but was not named in the just-settled suit.
