In the meantime however the this quote "U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
(USPTO) may be moving toward a final resolution of the NTP patents at the
heart of this dispute. Last December, the office issued another set of
preliminary rulings that found NTP's patents to be invalid."
http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/01/27/blackberry/index.php
Why the USPTO has taken its time with regards to officially striking down
NTP's patent claims I don't know, but had there been clearer statement of
position from the USPTO a lot of this scaremongering, and
faux-patent-enforcement could have had this settled a long time ago.
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:35:44 -0500, kondrak wrote
> Its all patent and prior art stuff. A canadian company claims to
> have the patents.
>
> At 13:04 1/26/2006, you wrote:
>
> >I am still wanting to know if the threat of
> >Blackberry's death which we are discussing
> >is (1) the legal/patent issue, in which case
> >I can say that DHS is polling executives in
> >at least banking as to whether national security
> >would be harmed if RIM ceased operation, or
> >(2) the clear and present danger to RIM of a
> >take-down by hackers, in which case I will
> >offer a 350MB videa from Chaos Computer Club
> >this past December 15 the title of which is
> >"A Call to Arms, Some Provided."
> >
> >I read mail slowly and episodically, and perhaps
> >my question got answered when I was not looking,
> >perhaps not.
> >
> >--dan
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