RIM ruling risks U.S. Blackberry shutdown
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An appeals court denies motion to stay patent case, which could cause a service shutdown in the near future for Blackberry users. RIM and NTP reached a $450 million settlement on the dispute in March, but the deal fell apart in June. Who knows what is going to happen on this one.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied RIM’s motion to suspend the case pending RIM’s request for a U.S. Supreme Court review. The case goes back to 2002, when patent holding company NTP successfully sued RIM in a lower court. It won an injunction in 2003 to halt U.S. sales of the BlackBerry and shut down its service, although that ruling was stayed pending appeal.
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