RIM Wins BlackBerry Patent Dispute in UK

Posted by Zonk on Friday February 3, 2006 @04:28AM from the one-down dept.

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."

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Re:The belly of the bureaucracy by OnesAndNoughts · 2006-02-03 05:09 · Score: 0, Troll

I was sure there was a semi-recent interview by Slashdot with someone that worked at the USPTO, but I can't seem to find it.
Nevermind, someone'll dupe it in the next day or so anyway...