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09-12-2007, 11:52 PM
NTP sues Verizon, AT&T, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile
NTP lawsuit centers on telcos’ e-mail-to-mobile services
By Brad Reed, Network World, 09/12/07
Following its successful patent suit against Research in Motion, NTP has now set its sites on the major telcos.
NTP, a patent holding company based in Arlington, Va., is suing Verizon, AT&T, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA for infringing on several of its patents, all of which are related to the delivery of e-mail to mobile devices. In their new round of suits, NTP is alleging that some of the telcos’ new e-mail-to-mobile services, such as those delivered by the T-Mobile Wing and AT&T Xpress Mail, infringe upon their patent rights. NTP wants an injunction and is demanding unspecified damages.
Five of the eight patents being used in the telco cases were the subject of NTP’s 2001 patent suit against Research in Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry. In November 2002, a jury found that RIM infringed upon NTP’s patents. The case continued to make headlines until 2006, when RIM agreed to pay NTP a settlement of $612.5 million, nearly four years after RIM had first been found guilty of infringing on NTP’s patents.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/09120-ntp-sues-verizon-att-sprint-nextel-tmobile.html
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NTP lawsuit centers on telcos’ e-mail-to-mobile services
By Brad Reed, Network World, 09/12/07
Following its successful patent suit against Research in Motion, NTP has now set its sites on the major telcos.
NTP, a patent holding company based in Arlington, Va., is suing Verizon, AT&T, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA for infringing on several of its patents, all of which are related to the delivery of e-mail to mobile devices. In their new round of suits, NTP is alleging that some of the telcos’ new e-mail-to-mobile services, such as those delivered by the T-Mobile Wing and AT&T Xpress Mail, infringe upon their patent rights. NTP wants an injunction and is demanding unspecified damages.
Five of the eight patents being used in the telco cases were the subject of NTP’s 2001 patent suit against Research in Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry. In November 2002, a jury found that RIM infringed upon NTP’s patents. The case continued to make headlines until 2006, when RIM agreed to pay NTP a settlement of $612.5 million, nearly four years after RIM had first been found guilty of infringing on NTP’s patents.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/09120-ntp-sues-verizon-att-sprint-nextel-tmobile.html
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/12/1956202&from=rss
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