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• RIM's long overdue settlement with NTP

  The big news on Friday was the long-overdue settlement between RIM and NTP . RIM paid $612.5M, including $450M already in escrow, to settle all infringement claims and for a perpetual license going forward. Dennis Crouch says the war is over and posts an relevant reader comment. Actually, I’m rather sorry to see this settlement. All the media hype and nonsense, plus the fears of politicians of losing their service, seemed to be greatly contributing to patent reform momentum and to the Supreme Court taking more patent cases. But at least the belated but initially effective RIM reexaminations of the patents in suit served to publicly demonstrate reexamination effectiveness in lowering settlement expectations. And without all the lawsuit publicity the reportedly cited obscure prior art Norwegian university publications would probably never have surfaced. Like most of you, I've said many times that there was virtually no chance of a shutdown. There are generally two remedies that interest NTP... Posted Mar 06 2006, 06:29 AM by Tim with | with no comments Filed under: Technology, Intellectual Property, Gadgets, Patent