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NTP vs. RIM
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 23 2012 @ 07:21 PM EDT

Re: NTP vs. RIM (from Wikipedia 'cause it's a good place to start)

RIM has agreed to pay NTP $612.5 million (USD) in a “full and final settlement of all claims.”

Although I don't agree with railroad jobs in court, there may have been more to this dispute than meets the eye, and we will never know. The government certainly has a lot to answer for given the ridiculous antics paraded as justice when it comes to patents.

Another American court hatchet job (not envolving patents) was a case between Jerry O'Keefe, a former mayor of Biloxi, and The Loewen Group, a Canadian based funeral services company. A dispute over a deal worth approx. $4 million was parlayed into a $500 million dollar judgement against the forgein firm in what has been criticized as a highly predjudiced trial. Furthermore, the court ordered the defendent to post a $675 million dollar bond within 7 days if they wanted to appeal, essentially foreclosing the appeal process. The result staggered and eventually bankrupted the high flying funeral services company. No one in MS shed any tears, but American justice suffered a black eye. Two wrongs don't make a right, especially if no wrong was committed in the first place.

There is plenty of injustice to go around so we just have to be vigilant and point it out when it happens. I guess that's why I read Groklaw.

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  • Foreigners - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 23 2012 @ 08:22 PM EDT
  • NTP vs. RIM - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 24 2012 @ 10:25 AM EDT
Will a Rejection Stop Damages?
Authored by: Wol on Tuesday, October 23 2012 @ 07:29 PM EDT
Don't forget, RIM was not innocent in all this. Things like lying to the court.
Things like ignoring a pointed command from the Judge of "don't do
this!".

If you actually look at what happened (and both sides played dirty), it seems a
fair reading of the case that the Judge said "a pox on both your
houses" and decided to join the participants in playing dirty.

If RIM hadn't played dirty, the Judge would probably have stayed the injunction
until after the patent re-exam. Given RIM's behaviour in court, he wasn't
prepared to cut them the slack.

Read the wikipedia article for all the gory details.

Cheers,
Wol

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