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Blackberry Injunction Postponed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the chalk-one-up-for-not-dumbness dept.

Astin writes "The PTO has rejected the last of the NTP patents against Research in Motion. On top of this, Judge Spencer has decided that Blackberry service won't be shut down today, but he will issue a decision on the injunction 'as soon as reasonably possible.' RIM CEO Jim Balsillie just said on CNBC that it's 'quite possible' that NTP won't see any settlement from RIM at all now."

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  1. patent squatting by zephc · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Patent squatting should forfeit the rights to a patent after, say, 3 years if no progress has been made. For example, if Company A patents something, then sits on it for years. Company B makes a device that uses A's patent, but A has done nothing with it said patent. If A can't prove that they are working on developing the invention in the patent, then the patent is voided. That includes you, hoverboard patent!

    Vote for me in 2008 and I will see this passed into law :-D

    --
    "I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
  2. Doesn't bother me by Dream1979 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I personally would love to see the blackberries shut down. I work in a real estate agency and all the brokers use them. I would LOVE to see the havoc caused if these self-proclaimed "important people" cant get their messages on the spot. They really need to learn that not everything needs to be done 5 minutes ago.

  3. Maybe... just maybe... by zubinjdalal · · Score: 3, Insightful

    1. The government won't react till the day the service is turned off.
    2. Then they'll look surprised
    3. Then they'll have a committee set up to investigate the issue
    4. On being blamed for lack of action, they'll feign ignorance and say they were not aware of the seriousness of the situation because it's not every day that RIM shuts its services off
    5. They'll say they'll treat this as learning experience
    6. They'll look into separating RIM from the DHS
    7. They'll find a scapegoat
    8. And then they'll wait for Mardi Gras!

    But this seems unlikely. The government would never do that.

  4. Re:Crushing BS Innovation by VP · · Score: 3, Insightful
    What is so innovative about email over a wireless connection? Let's take a look at what the technology was in the mid-90's:

    1. E-mail protocols: widely available, run on top of general switched-packet networks
    2. Switched-packet transport protocols: widely available
    3. Wireless switched-packet protocols: available

    What RIM did was:
    1. Design a usable device
    2. Create the infrastructure so that the devices can send and receive e-mail almost everywhere.
    3. Profit

    What NTP wants is to jump directly to 3. Innovation, my a$$.