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Former BlackBerry Patents in Hand, Malikie Innovations Hits the Courts
New Patent Litigation
Last summer, the assignment of thousands of patent assets from BlackBerry to Malikie Innovations Limited, a subsidiary of Irish patent monetization firm Key Patent Innovations Limited (KPI), reflected the May 2023 completion of the deal between the two, described as involving the sale of “substantially all of [BlackBerry’s] non-core patents and patent applications”. Now, Malikie has filed suit, accusing Acer (2:24-cv-00179) and ASUSTek (2:24-cv-00178) in separate Eastern District of Texas complaints of infringing overlapping subsets of its received assets through the provision of features such as video coding, gesture-based touch controls, and power management within various devices, including Chromebooks, docks, laptops, and tablets.
March 15, 2024
As Wider Changes Loom, BlackBerry Moves to End Litigation over Patent Divestiture
Patent Market, Patent Watch
A telephonic conference held this week shed light on the status of Tech+IP Advisory’s litigation against BlackBerry, which earlier this year divested its legacy patent portfolio to Malikie Innovations Limited in a transaction for which Tech+IP claims credit—and wants payment. Meanwhile, having handed off those patents and wound down its smartphone business, BlackBerry announced earlier this month that it intends to separate—and take public—its Internet of Things (IoT) business unit.
October 13, 2023
BlackBerry Patent Sale Spawns More Litigation, This Time from Tech+IP Advisory
Patent Market, Patent Watch
BlackBerry’s divestment of substantially all of its non-core patents assets to Malikie Innovations Limited may be in the rearview, the transaction having closed in May of this year, but the deal continues to spark new litigation: first from Catapult IP Innovations, Inc., which failed to complete its earlier attempt to buy the BlackBerry portfolio; and more recently, from Tech+IP Advisory, which was hired to facilitate BlackBerry’s patent sale.
September 1, 2023
Malikie Takes Ownership of Former BlackBerry Patents as Catapult IP Drops Suit
In Case You Missed It
USPTO records recently made public confirm the assignment of thousands of patent assets from BlackBerry to Malikie Innovations Limited, a subsidiary of Irish patent monetization firm Key Patent Innovations Limited. The transfers reflect the early May completion of the deal between the two, described as involving the sale of “substantially all of its non-core patents and patent applications” to Malikie. The transfers surface after York Eggleston’s Catapult IP Innovations Inc. voluntarily dismissed the Eastern District of Virginia case that it had filed in early June seeking to unwind the May transaction with Malikie.
July 15, 2023
Claiming Breach of Contract, Catapult IP Seeks to Unwind BlackBerry’s Patent Sale to Malikie
Patent Market, Patent Watch
In early May, BlackBerry completed the sale of “substantially all of its non-core patents and patent applications” to Malikie Innovations Limited—a subsidiary of Irish patent monetization firm Key Patent Innovations Limited—for $200M in upfront and guaranteed payments, plus a profit-sharing agreement. The transaction closed roughly 16 months after BlackBerry announced a tentative agreement to sell the same portfolio to York Eggleston’s Catapult IP Innovations Inc.—which is now seeking to compel Malikie to participate in an arbitration against BlackBerry to unwind last month’s transaction.
June 4, 2023
Bulk of BlackBerry’s Patent Portfolio Finds a New Home
Patent Market, Patent Watch, TPLF
On March 21, BlackBerry announced that it had reached an agreement to sell most of its patent portfolio to Malikie Innovations Limited—a subsidiary of Irish patent monetization firm Key Patent Innovations Limited—for $200M in upfront and guaranteed payments, plus a profit sharing agreement. The deal is subject to regulatory approvals, but the Malikie deal is fully financed. This news comes thirteen months after BlackBerry announced a tentative agreement to sell the portfolio to Catapult IP Innovations Inc.
March 24, 2023