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Supreme Court spurns RIM

Posted by Hemos on from the good-bye-black-berry dept.

l2718 writes "NTP has just won the latest round in its court battle against Research in Motion (makers of the Blackberry). Today's Order List from the US Supreme Court includes a denial of certiorary for RIM's appeal. This follows the Circuit Court of Appeals' denial of review en banc we have covered previously. As sometimes happens, the court nevertheless accepted amicus curiae briefs from several groups, including Intel and the Canadian government." The potential impact of this may mean the shutdown of Blackberry's network. I hope the crackberry addicts have lots of methadone onhand.

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  1. Alternatives by TubeSteak · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What are the alternatives to the BlackBerry?

    And I don't mean "roll your own" setups, but full fledged enterprise level products.

    RIM can't be the only company that offers such a service.

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  2. Re:Confused about why suit persists. by robertjw · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The judge actually stated that he will uphold the USPTO's CURRENT position. He is only interested in enforcing the patent, not determining it's validity. That's probably why RIM hasn't settled this already. They want to drag it out in the hope that the USPTO will actually invalidate NTP's patents sometime in the near future.

    This whole case is an amazing example of bureaucracy at 'work'.

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