. Re: The Blackberry patent debacle is in the ne ws again

["David Farber" <dave () farber net>]

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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:
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> 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
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> 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.
[...]"

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Joseph Lorenzo Hall
UC Berkeley, SIMS PhD Student
<http://josephhall.org/>
blog: <http://josephhall.org/nqb2/>

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