Blackberry

BlackBerry Limited (NYSE/TSX: BB), commonly "BlackBerry," is a Canadian enterprise software company headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario. It was founded in 1984 as Research In Motion Limited and renamed BlackBerry Limited in July 2013. It is a public company with no parent. Fiscal 2026 revenue was about US$549M (roughly $580M trailing twelve months), with approximately 1,749 employees and a market capitalization in the US$4.5–5B range as of September 2026.

Operations. BlackBerry exited handset manufacturing and now operates three segments: QNX, Secure Communications, and Licensing. QNX supplies safety-certified embedded software — the QNX real-time operating system, QNX Hypervisor, and development tools — plus BlackBerry Radar (asset monitoring/telematics), Certicom (elliptic-curve cryptography), and BlackBerry IVY (an in-vehicle data platform developed with AWS); its main customers are automotive OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, and industrial/medical device makers. Secure Communications covers unified endpoint management and secure collaboration: BlackBerry UEM, Dynamics, Workspaces, BBM Enterprise, SecuSUITE, and AtHoc. The Licensing segment manages and monetizes the company's patent portfolio.

Litigation posture. In the tracked data BlackBerry appears only as a defendant (1 case, 0 as plaintiff), consistent with an operating company targeted by third-party assertions rather than an active plaintiff. That is a partial picture: BlackBerry's own Licensing segment monetizes its patent portfolio, but the single tracked suit reflects the accused-infringer side. The venue is the plaintiff-friendly U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (Marshall Division).

Notable case. Innovative Display Technologies LLC v. Dell Inc. et al. (E.D. Tex., filed June 28, 2013; lead case No. 2:13-cv-00522). BlackBerry Corporation and BlackBerry Limited — then still Research In Motion — were named alongside Dell, HP, Acer, Huawei, ZTE, and Microsoft. Asserted U.S. patents (e.g., 6,755,547; 7,300,194; 7,384,177; 7,404,660; 7,434,974; 7,537,370; 8,215,816) cover "light emitting panel assemblies," tracing from Lumitex through Rambus and Acacia Research to Innovative Display Technologies, an Acacia-affiliated licensing entity. The suits largely settled; BlackBerry's involvement reflects its then-handset display technology.