Supreme Court rejects BlackBerry appeal
By Bernie on 23 Jan 2006
Although I believe the Court ruled properly in that a foreign company cannot avoid patent infringement by simply using that technology outside the US., I do however believe that NTP, a patent-holding company that produces nothing has obtained patents that were issued because the patent office has no clue about what they are doing. I suspect when the dust settles, it will be found that all the patents held by NTP will be found to be invalid.
MSNBC,
Supreme Court rejects BlackBerry patent appealThe Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from the maker of the BlackBerry in the long-running battle over patents for the wildly popular, handheld wireless e-mail device.
The high court’s refusal to hear Canada-based Research In Motion Ltd.’s appeal means that a trial judge in Richmond, Va., could impose an injunction against the company and block BlackBerry use among many of its owners in the United States.The justices had been asked to decide on whether U.S. patent law is technologically out of date in the age of the Internet and the global marketplace.
Had the Patent Office operated under today's technological rules in 1874 when the typewriter was invented, we would have had hundreds of legal battles with idiots claiming they want to patent the letter 'A' and others trying to claim they own the shift-key paradigm. Certainly, William A. Burt's estate is more entitled to royalties from RIM than these shifty patent-holding attorneys. There are more of his keys on the Blackberry than any of NTP's crap.

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