RIM Rejects More Patent Infringement Allegations 127
SilentOne writes "Waterloo based Research In Motion is facing new allegations of patent violation. Visto Corp. of Redwood Shores, Calif., said Monday that it had won an infringement case against Seven Networks, also of California, and is now targeting RIM for infringing four patents, including three involved in the Seven action. "Our case against RIM is based on similar technology, law and patents as the case we have just won," Visto said in a statement. "
The saddest part... (Score:1, Informative)
Just read that NTP has a large stake in Visto. This just keeps getting better.
I hope to see NTP and Visto get driven into the ground, and RIM come out on top.
Yea, software patents are bad. (Score:4, Informative)
The link supplied is to this PDF about patents [researchoninnovation.org]. It's worth your time to read about this research.
Re:Well, I knowing first hand.. (Score:3, Informative)
Thank God you're not the guy in charge of insuring shareholder value for RIM - you know - the people that own the company - yeah, they bought it, with their own evil money. Wanna see how far an $80 stock price can fall when you remove the source of the majority of its revenue? Wanna see if it makes any difference to a Canadian company if a US court rules against 'em? Think the Canucks are gonna send the mounties to the border, or enforce the US ruling? Really hard to figure out why you'll never run a major corporation.
Re:The saddest part... (Score:3, Informative)
And what are their products? Again, same web page:
"Visto Mobile(TM) is Visto's patented, operator-grade platform for mobile access to corporate and personal email, calendar, contacts (PIM) and other corporate data. Visto Mobile provides secure, IP-push, continuously synchronized, real-time access to email/PIM data for POP3, Microsoft Outlook/Exchange and IBM Lotus Notes/Domino servers via GPRS and CDMA 1x wireless networks. Visto Mobile Enterprise Server and Visto Mobile Personal Edition solutions support WAP and most other browser enabled phones or PCs, along with smart phones using Symbian OS, Palm OS, Windows Mobile for Smartphone and Pocket PC Phone Edition, and J2ME operating systems, as well as IMAP and SyncML-based clients. Visto's customized, brandable solutions are available through to mobile operators worldwide as a hosted service or a fully licensable and integrated platform."
Not exactly NTP....
Re:Well, I knowing first hand.. (Score:4, Informative)
Re:This is the danger of paying an extortionist... (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.visto.com/partners/wireless.html [visto.com]
So uh maybe RIM is just getting its just rewards for all the sueing it did.