German patent court rules in RIM’s favor
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Research in Motion Ltd. just announced that the federal patent court in Germany had ruled in favor of the maker of the BlackBerry e-mail device against patent-holding company InPro.
RIM said the German patent court had decided that all claims in InPro’s German-designated patent were invalid. Luxembourg-based InPro has the right to appeal the decision, RIM said in a statement. InPro had claimed that certain BlackBerry products had infringed a patent in Germany. The German ruling comes as RIM girds for a hearing on February 24 in a U.S. district court in a long-running battle with U.S. patent-holding firm NTP. Inc.
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