Business
BlackBerries won't go dark
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted March 27, 2006
Research in Motion Ltd. has agreed to pay NTP Inc. $612.5 million to settle a patent lawsuit that had threatened to shut down its popular BlackBerry wireless e-mail service in the United States. The settlement ends a five-year legal dispute in which NTP accused RIM of patent infringement.
Canada-based RIM, which faced a federal court-ordered shutdown, has vehemently denied the allegation but decided to settle after the federal judge handling the case, as he was poised to rule on it, chided both companies for failing to settle the matter.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2006/03/27/bibf0327.htm.