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BlackBerry earned a preliminary sales injunction against the Ryan Seacrest-backed Typo keyboard attachment for iPhone(s aapl), reports Reuters. BlackBerry filed a January suit against Typo due to “blatant infringement” of the iconic BlackBerry(s bbry) keyboard.

One look at the $99 Typo keyboard attachment for iPhone will give you a good idea of BlackBerry’s case and why a U.S. court awarded the sales ban for now.

According to U.S. District Judge William Orrick in San Francisco, Typo didn’t sufficiently challenge the patents in question and so the court awarded the sales ban for now. When the suit was filed in January, Typo offered Gigaom the following statement:

“Although we respect Blackberry and its intellectual property, we believe that Blackberry’s claims against Typo lack merit and we intend to defend the case vigorously. We are excited about our innovative keyboard design, which is the culmination of years of development and research. The Typo keyboard has garnered an overwhelmingly positive response from the public. We are also looking forward to our product launch at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week and remain on track to begin shipping pre-orders at the end of January.”

The concept of an iPhone keyboard accessory certainly isn’t a bad one: There are definitely phone users who prefer physical keys over a software keyboard. From that perspective, Typo’s product idea had merit. Spending two years to develop a keyboard that nearly mirrors that of a BlackBerry, however?

Sorry, Seacrest, not even an American Idol Judge’s Save will help this case.