RIM and NTP Settle E-mail Patent Dispute Case

For a while it looked like RIM was going to have to remove its push e-mail service in the USA due to a patent dispute with NTP. Thankfully, the whole thing is finally over, as RIM settled out of court for $612 million US which grants Research in Motion to continue running its Blackberry push e-mail service.

The funny part about the whole thing is that this comes after the US Patent Office continues to review NTP’s patents, and has issued preliminary rejections on most of the applicable patents, including completely rejecting one of the five relevant to the court case. I am sure many are happy though that they will continue to be able to check their e-mail on their “crack-berry” pager system.

March 6th, 2006 Posted by David in News at 10:39 am Comment Now! »
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