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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.
RIM will settle out of court and things will go on as usual.
How else are you going to check your email on the toilet, attending a mandatory meeting or driving at 90 mph?
*RIMshot*
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
As a Canadian, I'm so happy that your leaders enforce ridiculous patents on Canadian businesses. I'm also glad that your leaders violate NAFTA when it comes to softwood lumber. Thanks!
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Oh, sure. Pharmaceutic companies would continue to invest eight-, nine-, and even ten-figure sums into developing a drug knowing that, once developed, any competitor could produce and sell exactly the same thing without having invested the GNP of Albania in developing it.
No they wouldn't! that's the point. There are better ways to collaberate on R&D without multi billion dollar venture investments. This is just another symptom of the patent system gone amuck. The patent system locks out collaberation, so now to invent medicine people need to go into billion dollar R&D ventures, so it's a joke to say "well how are we going to raise all that money without patents!" Not to mention that patents provide a strong inventive to attack and not persue natural and alternative cures.
It only takes the tiniest amount of study to understand that, without patents, the pharmaceutic industry would cease to exist.
Well, if the end in itself is a bunch of overbloated industries, then yeah then I suppose some would find patents attractive.
Please post a link to the part of patent law that "locks out" collaboration.
Excuse me, you don't need a law to lock out collaberation. That is another consequence of the patent system. Get it. When reaserachers from different companies can get a leg and grab a key patent that locks out one of their competitors - then companies tend to discourage their researchers from collaberating. Get it.
While you're fruitlessly searching, you'll realize you made that entire line of reasoning up, if you haven't already been forced into that conclusion.
I am so glad you mentioned that. Ahem... Hey you... You're the one that wants to coerce this massive restriction on what everybody can immitate. The burden of proof is on You to prove that patents are anything more than piece of shit. You won't be able to do that, because they are a piece of shit. The writing is on the wall, the symptoms are everywhere, and those who don't see it are in denial.