If you want to get technical, NTP has less than a quarter of a billion to "blow on legal fees" given that the $650M was awarded three ways to the two founders of NTP (or their respective widows) and the shareholders of the company - it would only be the latter group's money that could be used on new lawsuits.
That being said, when RIM paid them off, they received an unfettered license to the technology, which extends to the BlackBerry service running on other devices as well (eg: BBConnect on your Palm 650). I don't even see how Palm can be in violation of their patents since Palm doesn't have their own push email system (or do they? I've never used one but always though you needed to get Good or Visto or something).
bah - whatever, I'll check back on this story in four years.
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badonkadonk @ Nov 8th 2006 1:35PM
If you want to get technical, NTP has less than a quarter of a billion to "blow on legal fees" given that the $650M was awarded three ways to the two founders of NTP (or their respective widows) and the shareholders of the company - it would only be the latter group's money that could be used on new lawsuits.
That being said, when RIM paid them off, they received an unfettered license to the technology, which extends to the BlackBerry service running on other devices as well (eg: BBConnect on your Palm 650). I don't even see how Palm can be in violation of their patents since Palm doesn't have their own push email system (or do they? I've never used one but always though you needed to get Good or Visto or something).
bah - whatever, I'll check back on this story in four years.