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RIM Rejects More Patent Infringement Allegations
SilentOne writes "Waterloo based Research In Motion is facing new allegations of patent violation. Visto Corp. of Redwood Shores, Calif., said Monday that it had won an infringement case against Seven Networks, also of California, and is now targeting RIM for infringing four patents, including three involved in the Seven action. "Our case against RIM is based on similar technology, law and patents as the case we have just won," Visto said in a statement. "
Straight from the innovations in software page, we have: "As patentability has increased, there's good evidence that the number of software innovations has decreased. Bessen and Maskin also demonstrated a statistical correlation between the spread of patentability in the United States and a decline in innovation in software. In particular, between 1987 and 1994 , software patents issuance rose 195%, yet real company funded R&D fell by 21% in these (software) industries while rising by 25% in industries in general. This paper gives additional evidence that software patents are inversely related to innovation; it's hard to not notice that as patenting become more common (e.g., 1987 and later) that the number of major innovations slowed down and are almost always not patented anyway."
The link supplied is to this PDF about patents. It's worth your time to read about this research.
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Wow, Visto has no products. I guess their clients will be surprised to hear that. Clients like AT&T Wireless, Bell Mobility, KPN, Manitoba Telecom Services, Nextel Communications, Inc., Rogers Wireless, SaskTel Mobility, SmarTone, TELUS Mobility, Vodafone Global, Vodafone Germany, Vodafone Italy and Vodafone Spain (lifted from http://www.visto.com/about/index.html). "Visto's products are used by over 200,000 mobile professionals globally. Our enterprise customers include GE, Sara Lee, USA Credit Union, and Xerox."
And what are their products? Again, same web page:
"Visto Mobile(TM) is Visto's patented, operator-grade platform for mobile access to corporate and personal email, calendar, contacts (PIM) and other corporate data. Visto Mobile provides secure, IP-push, continuously synchronized, real-time access to email/PIM data for POP3, Microsoft Outlook/Exchange and IBM Lotus Notes/Domino servers via GPRS and CDMA 1x wireless networks. Visto Mobile Enterprise Server and Visto Mobile Personal Edition solutions support WAP and most other browser enabled phones or PCs, along with smart phones using Symbian OS, Palm OS, Windows Mobile for Smartphone and Pocket PC Phone Edition, and J2ME operating systems, as well as IMAP and SyncML-based clients. Visto's customized, brandable solutions are available through to mobile operators worldwide as a hosted service or a fully licensable and integrated platform."
Not exactly NTP....
You mean those dictators that the U.S. set up and armed?