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. Re: The Blackberry patent debacle is in the ne ws again
From: "David Farber" <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 13:27:34 -0500
_______________ Forward Header _______________ Subject: Re: [IP] The Blackberry patent debacle is in the news again Author: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <joehall () gmail com> Date: 9th October 2005 8:53:28 am On 10/9/05, David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:
Begin forwarded message: From: Bob Frankston <Bob19-0501 () bobf frankston com> Date: October 8, 2005 10:25:24 PM EDT To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: The Blackberry patent debacle is in the news again Does anyone on the list know exactly what the patents are about?
Here are tinyurls to the patents in question (see below): 5,625,670: <http://tinyurl.com/97s6c> 5,631,946: <http://tinyurl.com/b2v7b> 5,819,172: <http://tinyurl.com/c6dr4> 6,067,451: <http://tinyurl.com/7lt23> 6,317,592: <http://tinyurl.com/4pel>
From <http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/07/technology/07patent.html?ex=1402027200&en=5831810075d0c0fe&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND>
"[... ] RIM has been aggressively challenging five of NTP's eight patents covering this technology (patents 5,625,670; 5,631,946; 5,819,172; 6,067,451 and 6,317,592). The director of the Patent Office has ordered reexamination of these five NTP patents, which were also the subject of anonymous challenges. Those five are being re-examined by the Patent Office. Four are undergoing what is known as ex parte re-examination, a process in which only one side is heard, where the chances of a patent being overturned are usually quite small. The party being heard in these four cases is NTP. The fifth is undergoing what is called an inter partes re-examination, which means a third party is involved, in addition to the Patent Office and NTP. In this fifth case, that third party is RIM. Given that inter partes re-examinations are relatively new at the Patent Office, this process is considered a wildcard in the case. The Patent Office is expected to issue its ruling on this fifth patent soon. [...]" -- Joseph Lorenzo Hall UC Berkeley, SIMS PhD Student <http://josephhall.org/> blog: <http://josephhall.org/nqb2/> This email is written in [markdown] - an easily-readable and parseable text format. [markdown]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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