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Supreme Court spurns RIM
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.
Why should blackberry consumers pay a %50 tax on the companies legal defense from a counter company that doesn't make anything only buys patents to sue people?
Do they even make any products at all? They are a patent purchasing firm that just hires lawyers to buy patents and sue people and pass the money onto us the consumer.
Worse the money used to win the case will now be used to obtain other patents so they can SUE even more people and pass the cost on to us.
What service are they providing the economy? What resource are they providing us? They shouldn't exist at all according to classic economics as they dont server society its need. Its classic socialism right there as they are a government mandated monopoly on the patents they own. Just plain stupid.
Its just another reason to ban patents all together and stick with copyrights.
Now everyone has to suffer to make some CEO happy and their shareholders.
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umm.. I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or ignorant.
if you're not familiar with the facts of the case, here you go:
RIM is a Canadian Company that sells the blackBerry in Canada and the US.
RIM has a patent on the way an e-mail is sent in Canada.
Their server that does this stuff is in Canada.
All e-mails sent are routed to their server in Canada.
NTP is a company that just collects patents.
NTP has a US patent on the stuff that RIM does.
They have not put any money into research and do not have a product.
They do not employ anyone.
Please tell me what is this innovation that you're talking about. Anyone can dream of flying cars and robots taking over the world, and Hollywood has clearly shown us that. But it takes more than just a dream to create a product, it takes hours of research, $$'s and commitment to actually make it work. RIM has created a product and employes a lot of ppl, NTP hasn't put any money into research and doesn't employ anyone, they don't even have a product. So why would you support them?