BlackBerry successfully killed Ryan Seacrest's lookalike iPhone case

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Raymond Wong
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The Typo, Ryan Seacrest's BlackBerry lookalike keyboard case for the iPhone, is officially dead.

BlackBerry announced on Monday that Typo Products LLC and its cofounder, Laurence Hallier, have "settled their outstanding legal disputes."

The Ryan Seacrest-backed iPhone accessory added a physical QWERTY keyboard to the iPhone, essentially turning it into a BlackBerry of sorts.

Typo Products and BlackBerry were previously entangled in a lawsuit in which the latter insisted Seacrest's company infringed on its intellectual property by blatantly ripping off its physical keyboard.

The company's first-gen Typo keyboard was pulled off the market briefly and replaced by the Typo 2, a keyboard case with keys that resembled BlackBerry's keyboards less.

The terms of the settlement state the Typo will stop selling keyboards for mobile devices with display sizes under 7.9 inches; the company is allowed to continue selling keyboard for larger screen sizes, though.

It would appear the company's Bluetooth keyboard for iPad, which was announced in January, is safe for now.

BONUS: We challenged Ryan Seacrest to a text-off

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