RIM fights from 147 million dollars in damages in patent dispute
The Canadian BlackBerry vendor Research In Motion (RIM) has successfully appealed against a ruling in patent dispute with the company Mformation appeal. The United States District Court of Northern California has decided, according to a RIM announcement that it had found no evidence of patent infringement. Thus, the court rejected the verdict of a jury by mid-July.
RIM now has to pay not ordered by the jury 147.2 million U.S. dollars in damages. Mformation may go against the verdict. If the company will be successful, but the jury's verdict reinstated, but a new trial due, it says in the statement.
The patent system was actually meant to drive innovation, says RIM chief prosecutor Steve Zipperstein. Often it will but used for other purposes. Many politicians were to become aware of this problem now, call the RIM the others to join them. Finally, this case was made aware that reforms were necessary to stop the waste of resources, by unwanted patent disputes. This Zipperstein obviously plays on political initiatives such as "Saving High-Tech Innovators from egregious Legal Disputes (SHIELD) Act" to. He states that would contribute to a process for IT-related patents is an inferior applicant to pay all court costs.
Mformation 2008 went to trial against RIM. Specifically, it was about that BlackBerry devices and related software illegally in U.S. Patent 6,970,917 (System and method for remote control and management of wireless devices) and 7,343,408 (System and method for wireless data terminal management using telecommunication signaling network will be used). The two patents were filed in August, respectively, in December 2001 and in November 2005 and March 2008 has been assigned.
Mformation had argued since the late 1990s to innovate in the field of management for mobile devices have been active - and long before the market had become aware of its importance. The patents are a key component of innvativen Mformation products and essential device management on the market today
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