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Authored by: Wol on Saturday, April 20 2013 @ 07:22 AM EDT |
Except that "prior art" WASN'T!
Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_Patent_Lawsuit
"During the trial, RIM tried to show that a functional wireless email
system was already in the public domain at the time the NTP inventions had been
made. This would have invalidated the NTP patents. The prior system was called
"System for Automated Messages" (SAM). RIM demonstrated SAM in court
and it appeared to work. But the NTP attorneys discovered that RIM was not using
vintage SAM software, but a more modern version that came after NTP's inventions
were made. Therefore the judge instructed the jury to disregard the
demonstration as invalid."
I agree that the patent system doesn't work. But from what I can make out, when
RIM's lawyers demonstrated the above stuff to the court, they seem to have known
(and not told the court) that the version they were demo-ing POST-dated the
patents! And it is presumably THAT - not the fact that the demo postdated the
patent, but the fact that the attorneys KNEW it postdated it the patent, that
upset the Judge.
Cheers,
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