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BlackBerry illustration proves fruitful for NTP

Since everyone else is roofing this item, the IPKat feels he should move doing as well as hence equally good ...

Yesterday the United States Supreme Court refused to listen an appeal from Research In Motion Ltd (RIM), who brand the BlackBerry, against NTP, the possessor of a patent which it infringes. This agency that the courtroom hearing the patent infringement activeness inward Richmond, Virginia, may at its discretion impose an injunction against the fellowship as well as block the role of the iconic BlackBerry inward the United States.

The justices were asked to create upwards one's heed whether Research In Motion could move held liable for patent infringement inward the USA when its principal relay station for electronic mail as well as information transmission was located inward Waterloo, Ontario, exterior US borders. RIM was challenging a ruling past times a federal appeals courtroom that constitute that the fellowship had infringed the patents held past times NTP Inc., a pocket-size northern Virginia patent-holder, because its customers role the BlackBerry inside the US. The panel said it did non affair where the relay station was located.

RIM convey sought to play downwardly the significance of the court’s rejction. Said Mark Guibert, RIM’s vice president for corporate marketing:

“RIM has consistently acknowledged that Supreme Court review is granted inward only a pocket-size percent of cases as well as nosotros were non banking on Supreme Court review. RIM’s legal arguments for the District Court rest potent as well as our software workaround designs rest a enterprise contingency".

wonders whether a British courtroom would always grant injunctive relief inward a illustration such equally this. Where the infringing deed is non actively interfering amongst whatever other production on the marketplace as well as where the total of disruption to 3rd parties is as well as hence great, he bets that relief would move confined to damages alone. Merpel adds, NTP convey been defendant of beingness a parasite or a troll because they don't genuinely exploit the patent themselves but only need a revenue enhancement from others who role it. But isn't that what academic institutions too produce ...?

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