Monday, January 23, 2006
The U.S. Supreme Court declines a request to review the patent infringement ruling against RIM, the maker of the BlackBerry e-mail device.
On October 26, Chief Justice John Roberts turned down a request by RIM to stay the lower court's patent infringement ruling while the high court considered whether to hear a RIM appeal.
The case goes back to 2002, when patent holding company NTP Inc. 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.
RIM and NTP reached a tentative $450 million settlement on the dispute in March, but the deal fell apart in June. RIM wants the lower court to enforce the agreement.
NTP has asked the trial judge in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to confirm the injunction. It has said an injunction would not affect BlackBerry products used by U.S. federal, state, or local governments.
By: DocMemory
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