6 posts and columns on NTP

U.S. Patent Office Leaves Some Coal in Oracle’s Stocking

in News on December 27, 2011 at 5:39 am PT

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has reexamined and rejected a patent at issue in Oracle’s fight with Google over the use of Java in the Android mobile operating system.
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Firm Uses Crowdsourcing to Help Big Company Clients Fight Off Patent Suits

in News on October 24, 2011 at 4:00 am PT

Article One Partners, which recently opened an office in Palo Alto, is carving out a niche by helping those targeted in lawsuits to invalidate the patents they are accused of infringing.
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RIM Gets Access to Intellectual Ventures’ Pile of Patents

in Mobile on March 30, 2011 at 10:30 am PT

With the deal, RIM gains a warehouse of more than 30,000 patents as it seeks to wind its way through the murky, litigious world that is the modern smartphone business.

NTP Sues Apple, Google, Microsoft and Others Over Wireless Email

in News on July 9, 2010 at 7:45 am PT

NTP, the holding company that used its wireless-email patents to squeeze a $612.5 million settlement out of Research in Motion via an excruciating intellectual property battle, is back again, this time to shake down six of RIM’s competitors. On Friday NTP filed patent infringement lawsuits against Apple, Google, HTC, LG Electronics, Microsoft and Motorola.

New From H-P: The Gene Roddenberry Memorial Hypospray

in News on September 12, 2007 at 11:00 am PT

A Patent Holding Company Named Sue

in News on September 12, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

NTP has finally found a good use for the $612.5 million patent settlement it won from BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion last year: underwriting more patent-infringement lawsuits. Last Friday the patent holding firm sued AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile for infringing on its portfolio of mobile email-services patents and demanded they pay royalties on the sales [...]