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RIM: Hasta La Visto, Baby

in News on July 16, 2009 at 9:02 am PT

Sued by Visto in 2006 for allegedly infringing its patents, Research in Motion denied having done so. It countersued, claiming the disputed patents, which relate to accessing and synchronization of information over a network, should not have been granted because they contain new inventions. RIM petitioned to have them invalidated. But in the end, the BlackBerry maker ended up licensing them anyway.
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Insert Weak "Gfail" Joke Here

in News on February 24, 2009 at 12:58 pm 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 [...]