Mntsnow
12-16-2004, 7:35 AM
A U.S. appeals court issued a mixed ruling this week in a patent dispute between Research in Motion (RIM), maker of the popular BlackBerry devices, and NTP. The court upheld a decision that RIM infringed upon patents held by NTP, but vacated an injunction ordered by a lower court and sent the case back for further deliberations.
NTP owns patents for a wireless communications system that it believes covers wireless e-mail systems such as RIM's BlackBerry. In 2002 a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia agreed, awarding NTP $23.7 million in damages.
Read more at PcWorld (http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,118956,00.asp)
NTP owns patents for a wireless communications system that it believes covers wireless e-mail systems such as RIM's BlackBerry. In 2002 a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia agreed, awarding NTP $23.7 million in damages.
Read more at PcWorld (http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,118956,00.asp)