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Governments Take Sides In Blackberry Patent Suit

Posted by timothy on from the please-don't-call-it-a-free-market dept.

geekboy_x writes "The recent court decision giving NTP a big chunk of Research In Motion's Blackberry profits has attracted an unusal participant - the government of Canada. The original ruling, where RIM was judged to have violated 5 of NTP's patents, has now been stayed pending appeal, and the Canadian government has filed a motion in the U.S. court to request a full re-hearing. At stake is not only money, but the rights to sell and service any Blackberry-like product."

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  1. Re:Canadian Government... by Justin205 · · Score: 1, Troll

    If the US courts do uphold this, then they'd just be cutting themselves off from the rest of the world more...

    I'm betting they'll eventually become an isolated country, killing anyone who tries to enter or leave... And I'm only half joking about that...

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