NTP Sues Palm, Alleging Patent Violation

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday November 7, 2006 @01:45AM from the thrilling dept.

mikesd81 writes "The Seattle Time reports that NTP is now going after Palm for patent infringement on technology used in their devices. The suit asks the court to bar Palm from continuing to infringe on NTP's patents and seeks monetary damages for the alleged past infringements. At issues are eleven patents, dating from 1995 to 2001, according to the lawsuit. Five of the patents were part of NTP's lawsuit against RIM. The Palm complaint also centers on products, services and systems that integrate e-mail systems with wireless communications, including the Treo, Palm VII, Palm i700 and Tungsten products." You may recall NTP from the just-finished Blackberry case. Good to know they're staying busy.

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Re:If you don't manufacture anything... by morgan_greywolf · 2006-11-07 02:41 · Score: 4, Interesting

Yeah...and now there's an unfortunate precedent in NTPs favour showing they can be successful at it.

Actually not. While they did settle with Blackberry for a healthy sum, shortly after the settlement agreement, all 7 of NTP's patents were found to be invalid by the USPTO.

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