RIM settles court battle with Eatoni to work on new keypad designs

BlackBerry maker RIM seems to have made up with Eatoni, a company specialising in keyboard developer, and is now working with on new predictive text technology.

The two companies had been battling in court over patent infringements, but now they’ve announced a new relationship that sees Eatoni granted a patent license to develop ‘Touch-typeable devices based on ambiguous codes and methods to design such devices’.

Eatoni has specialised in reduced or ‘ambiguous’ keypads that work and feel like full QWERTY keyboards, so presumably we shall start seeing some new keypad designs emerging on future BlackBerry releases.

Now the dispute has been settled the claims bought by RIM and Eatoni have now been dismissed.

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