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RIM Chairman Wants Changes to U.S. Patent Law

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the with-good-reason dept.

florescent_beige writes "The Globe and Mail is reporting that James Balsillie '... called on U.S. lawmakers yesterday to fix a system that he says boxed the company into one of the largest legal settlements in U.S. history.' Although this will do nothing to change the $612.5M(US) settlement RIM was forced to sign with NTP, Mr. Balsille says he wants to help 'assure that no other company experiences what we endured over the past five years.' Mr Balsillie's rhetoric was direct: he said RIM's treatment at trial was like '... a judge in a murder case pondering execution while ignoring DNA evidence that exonerates the accused ... RIM was virtually held up for ransom by NTP...'"

3 of 245 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Am I missing something? by Soporific · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Except it wasn't wombat...

  2. Re:Am I missing something? by smooth+wombat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Thank you. Since I got my account I ALWAYS post under it. I never post AC. I'll take whatever slings and arrows come my way.

    So to the original AC poster, suck it.

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  3. Re:How forward thinking is RIM, anyway? by LaCosaNostradamus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Don't deal with the receptionist. Ask for the HR Department instead. HR is definitely the place to get a RIM job. People are getting RIM jobs from the ladies in HR all the time.

    A lot of people apply for those. Heck, I could really use a RIM job myself. I hear that they're really satisfying.

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    [You have a stable society when some nut guns down a schoolyard and the law doesn't change.]