Facebook says BlackBerry has stolen its voicemail technology

Facebook sues BlackBerry for patent infringement, according to a report by Bloomberg. The lawsuit comes a few months after BlackBerry sued Facebook, alleging that the social media company and its subsidiaries WhatsApp and Instagram had violated the patents of the BlackBerry messaging application.

In the lawsuit filed in San Francisco federal court, Facebook accuses BlackBerry of violating several technologies and patented processes related to voicemail, the way a mobile device provides graphics and the tracking and analysis of GPS data. In total, Facebook claims unspecified damages for violation of six patents.

In March, BlackBerry sued Facebook, saying the company "was using a number of innovative security, user interface, and feature features that made BlackBerry products a critical and commercial success first." The interface elements of the cover of the questions are as wide as the display of the timestamps of the messages and the possibility of marking the friends and the family in the photos. BlackBerry and its BBM system gained popularity between the mid to late 2000s, while Facebook Messenger came out of the main application in 2013. In the spring of 2014, Facebook has disabled the ability to send out messages in the original application. the autonomous Messenger.