[citw150] CITW150 L3 Q5 BlackBerry
- From: TeAnna0713@xxxxxxx
- To: citw150@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 21:54:04 EST
I decided that since my husband owns a BlackBerry I should see how the
patent fight was going. The BlackBerry was invented and patented in Waterloo,
Ontario by Research In Motion (RIM). An Arlington, VA based NTP, which is a
patent holding company said the BlackBerry infringed on 16 claims of five NTP
patents. RIM said that US patent laws have no jurisdiction in Canada. March
16, 2005, Research In Motion agreed to pay $450 million to settle patent
infringement, months later the deal unraveled. As of Feb. 17, 2006, they are
still
going at it. On Feb 24, 2006, there will be another court hearing to
determine if RIM will have to end service to its 3 million US servers. They
can do
a workaround, but not many customers are going to want to go through the
trouble installing new software.
_http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=159901086_
(http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=159901086)
_www.techweb.com/headlines_week/_ (http://www.techweb.com/headlines_week/)
_http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/biztech/02/17/rim.cfo.reut/_
(http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/biztech/02/17/rim.cfo.reut/)
TeAnna Taphouse
TeAnna0713@xxxxxxx (this is the one for Listserv)
teajorwolf@xxxxxxxxx
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