Seeing as I have been talking about mobile email and push email a lot lately I thought that this article about the current litigation between NTP and RIM was quite interesting. The court will make a ruling on Friday whether or not the injunction against the sale of blackberry in the U.S will go ahead.
“No more communication, no more instant updates, isolation from the outside world. That’s what 4 million BlackBerry customers fear if a judge cuts the service.
A five-year battle between a tiny patent holder and BlackBerry maker Research In Motion could come to a head in a Richmond, Va., courtroom Friday. That’s when a federal judge will decide whether to enforce an injunction against RIM, which would shut down its wireless e-mail system.
Several years before RIM introduced its BlackBerry system, NTP Inc. owned patents to a system that could send messages from computers to wireless devices, but NTP never actually developed a system. When RIM started producing BlackBerrys in 2001, NTP launched a lawsuit.”
Full article @ abcnews
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