Thursday, December 22, 2005
End Of Frivolous Patent Lawsuits In Sight?
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "NEWS" @ 04:00 PM
http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20051221150546394
"Info-Tech Research Group says that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's rejection of the five patents that are at the heart of a lawsuit that has threatened to shut down Research In Motion's BlackBerry service will once again return wide-open competition to the wireless e-mail market. "The USPTO announcement sends two strong messages to the wireless market," says Info-Tech analyst Carmi Levy. "The first is that predictions of BlackBerry's imminent demise were highly premature and unnecessarily inflammatory. The second is that life will get tougher on companies whose business model consists of using patents to sue successful vendors instead of competing for clients and markets."
The article goes on to state that with the rejection of all five claims, NTP has nothing to go after RIM with. Presumably this will similarly render Visto's suit against Microsoft equally impotent.
"Info-Tech Research Group says that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's rejection of the five patents that are at the heart of a lawsuit that has threatened to shut down Research In Motion's BlackBerry service will once again return wide-open competition to the wireless e-mail market. "The USPTO announcement sends two strong messages to the wireless market," says Info-Tech analyst Carmi Levy. "The first is that predictions of BlackBerry's imminent demise were highly premature and unnecessarily inflammatory. The second is that life will get tougher on companies whose business model consists of using patents to sue successful vendors instead of competing for clients and markets."
The article goes on to state that with the rejection of all five claims, NTP has nothing to go after RIM with. Presumably this will similarly render Visto's suit against Microsoft equally impotent.
