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RIM Wins BlackBerry Patent Dispute in UK
Guinnessy writes "Research In Motion has won its first patent case against Inpro Licensing. Justice Nicholas Pumfrey rejected a claim by Luxembourg-based Inpro Licensing SARL that it holds a UK patent on the technology used by RIM to transpose images and Internet files onto BlackBerry screens ruling that all the claims at issue were either obvious or lacking in novelty. It is the second European legal victory this year for RIM, following a Munich court's invalidation of a German version of the same patent. The big court case of course is on Feb 24 when a U.S. court will consider whether the BlackBerry service should be halted for infringing patents held by licensing firm NTP."
This is a great thing!
Looks like they aren't going to go out of business after all. Maybe I'll send them an application, I always wanted a RIM job. I just hope they aren't anal about the dress code.
...10 years down the line. In 1996, the use of a proxy server to change data to suit the target device would have been very innovative.
Because back then we were still trying to figure that "bang the rocks together" thing.
If we had data headed for a device that couldn't handle it, we just threw up our hands. "If God wanted us to see this data on computer screens, "we'd say,"he'd make them in an A4 size." We hired people to hold two phone receivers, one to each ear, so that users on the PBX who had analog phones could talk to the digital phone users.
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