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October 26, 2005
Supreme RIM Shot
Discovering a hitherto untapped sense of humor in quoting W.C. Fields, newly appointed Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts told Research in Motion (RIM), in its appeal to stay the lower court ruling of infringement of NTP patents: "get away from me kid, you bother me."
While taking modest poetic license in that last paragraph, in fact, the Chief Justice of the United States on Wednesday declined to suspend the patent infringement ruling against RIM, the maker of the BlackBerry wireless e-mail device, while the Supreme Court considers whether to hear an appeal. This follows on the heels of the CAFC blowing a similar raspberry to the Blackberry maker last week.
RIM and NTP reached a $450 million settlement agreement in March, but the deal fell apart in June. RIM wants the lower court to enforce the agreement.
NTP was not available to gloat.
Posted by Patent Hawk at October 26, 2005 12:53 PM | Litigation