RIM has lost the patent infringement suit brought against it by NTP. What happened? Well, NTP is a holding company, which in the technology market is code for "acquired some patents and looking to sue some folks for licensing dollars". NTP holds patents covering radio frequency wireless communications for email systems, which is hilarious since that doesn't strike one as an invention so much as the only obvious way to execute email in a non-tethered environment.
RIM to pay $53 million to NTP, RIM is appealing, NTP will probably allow RIM to pay some nominal licensing fee on a per seat basis that RIM will just pass along to customers. So, a company that really does nothing and probably had nothing to do with the actual emergence of wireless email will now make a bunch of money off of wireless email. Why? Because the patent examiners in the USPA are evaluated on how many patents they approve each year, that's why. Good thing that system is there to protect the small inventor and isn't being abused by holding companies and attorneys!
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