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RIM Loses NTP Case, To Pay $53 Million

theodp writes "A judge has ruled in favor of holding company NTP in its patent-infringement case against BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, awarding monetary damages and fees of $53.7 million and granting an injunction preventing RIM from making, using, or offering to sell handhelds, services or software in the U.S. until the date of expiration of NTP's patents, the latest of which is May 20, 2012. The court then stayed that injunction, pending an appeal by the Canadian company."

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  1. With or without you by mao+che+minh · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    See the stone set in your eyes
    See the thorn twist in your side
    I wait for you

    Sleight of hand and twist of fate
    On a bed of nails she makes me wait
    And I wait without you

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    Through the storm we reach the shore
    You give it all but I want more
    And I'm waiting for you

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    And you give yourself away

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  2. We have a patent on liberty by corebreech · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And we should sue the government for violating it.

  3. woo hooo...im first by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    this is so cool

  4. Wha? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And for those of us who actually have had sex with a breathing (i.e. living), *biped* of the OPPOSITE sex, can you please tell us what a "RIM" job is?

  5. Lawsuit anyone? by SoTuA · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This guys should get together with SCO... quite a showing of lawsuits going on!

    I wonder how much of the suit was genuine infringement and how much SCO-like "derivative works" and "magical IP that gives me property over everything that touches it" whinning.

  6. Re:First! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you actually create new name so you can troll at +1?

  7. Are you uncircumcised? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    Please do the future a service, and continue to circumcise your sons for the sake of the country because what woman wants to suck on a GROSS FILTHY uncircumcised penis? NONE! And the US population will whither as a result. If you are European, you now know why you guys have the reputation of being smelly and gross, IT IS BECAUSE of your gross UNCiRCUMCISED FILTHY penises.

  8. ARTICAL ?? by cdf12345 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    WTF IS AN ARTICAL ?

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  9. nice links by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    nt

  10. Re:Well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    Cast me into classes for electro shock
    Straight incarcerated, the curriculum's a cell block
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    Ya weigh me on a scale, smellin' burnt skin
    It's dark now in Dachau and I'm screamin' from within
    'Cause I'm cell locked in tha doctrines of tha right
    Enslaved by dogma, talk about my birthrights
    Yet at every turn I'm runnin' into hell's gates
    So I grip tha cannon like Fanon an pass tha shells to my classmates
    Aw, power to tha people
    'Cause tha bosses right ta live is mine ta die
    So I'm goin' out heavy sorta like Mount Tai
    Wit tha five centuries of penitentiary so let tha guilty hang
    In tha year of tha boomerang

    I got no property but yo I'm a piece of it
    So let tha guilty hang
    I got no property but yo I'm a piece of it
    In the year of tha boomerang
    I got no property but yo I'm a piece of it
    So let tha guilty hang
    I got no property but yo I'm a piece of it
    In the year of tha boomerang

    Yeah!
    Now it's upon you!
    Now it's upon you!

    Tha sistas are in so check the front line
    Seems I spent the '80s in the Haiti state of mind
    Cast me into classes for electro shock
    Straight incarcerated, the curriculum's a cell block
    Swimmin' in half truths and it makes me wanna spit
    Instructor come separate the healthy from tha sick
    Ya weigh me on a scale, I'm smellin' burnt skin
    It's dark now in Dachau and I'm screamin' from within
    'Cause I'm cell locked in tha doctrines of tha right
    Enslaved by dogma, talk about my birthrights
    Yet at every turn I'm runnin' into hell's gates
    So I grip tha cannon like Fanon an pass tha shells to my classmates
    Aw, power to tha people, yeah, yeah
    Tha bosses right ta live is mine ta die
    I'm goin' out heavy sorta like Mount Tai
    Wit tha five centuries of penitentiary so let tha guilty hang
    In tha year of tha boomerang

    I got no property but yo I'm a piece of it
    So let tha guilty hang
    I got no property but yo I'm a piece of it
    Uh! In the year of tha boomerang
    I got no property but yo I'm a piece of it
    So let tha guilty hang
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    In the year of tha boomerang

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  11. Re:So by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    [ rimshot ]

  12. What subject? by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    POooo TAaang!!!

    RIMshot

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  13. If there's one thing I think I'll NEVER understand by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's goatse .

  14. Re:If there's one thing I think I'll NEVER underst by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's what your ass looks like after you pull your head out of it. Hope that clears things up for you.

  15. Re:Lots of info...but nothing we couldn't figure o by HunterCat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I agree that the quality of the articles appears to be suffering in the race to get them out. On the merits of this case, did you notice that RIM's stock fell 3.16 or over 11% of its value. If the company does not right its ship, and quickly, they will not be around when the appeal is heard. MMORPG Fan? Click Here to try the new, Free, Everwars

  16. Re:HOLY FUCK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Moderators please read all other postings on this thread before moderating. The above is a well constructed troll/famebait.

    1. Username
    2. Inflamtory comment on 1st paragraph.
    3. Suggestion of Captalism and inflaming ppl (it works only on /.)
    4. Point out that RIM is Canadian (Inflamatory suggestion again) -- BTW is it?
    5. Again pointing out Canada as the last phrase of the message.

    From all this you should be aware that this was a well constructed troll msg that ended up going kinda weak (at the end there).