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Hello All....
With technology always changing and improving, you shouldn't be able to have such a broad patent like the one NTP holds for the wireless email (ill get to that in a second). That would be like Microsoft getting a patent titled: OPERATING SYSTEM GUI ON A PC/PALM/PHONE/ANYTHING WITH A PROCESSOR IN IT/ETC.
This is the title of the patent NTP holds at the U.S. Patent Office that they are suing RIM over: ELECTRONIC MAIL SYSTEM WITH RF COMMUNICATIONS TO MOBILE PROCESSORS AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF
Now really, how broad is that? If I am not mistaken, this covers just about anything that you can get text with like SMSing. You can get personal e-mails on many things other than a Blackberry, like a Treo, Razor, crap....my crappy old Samsung with Sprint gets emails if I want it to. Basically, nowadays, anything with an active network connection can get email. Pentium and AMD have a 'mobile processor', just like the laptop I am on writing this....not to mention I have a wireless RF link to connect to the internet.....OH NO!!!!! NTP basically picked the one product the 'wished' they could have developed to sue. Think back to high school, that kid you hated because he had the nicest car and you didnt....something like the same thing?
Going on.....
I have a sneaky suspicion that the 16-million lines of code that Blackberry uses in no way represent the code that ESA developed back in the day, nor does the network structure compare to anything ESA could have imagined back in 1980's.
With the amount of changes that the wireless network have undergone in the last 10 years, I really don't think that there should be any way that NTP should be able to win this case. I whole-heartedly agree with Ryan (#22), this country is going downhill hella fast with idiotic judges and retarded patent holding companies that can do nothing but sit on paperwork while the real geniuses are out there making up concepts that work in the real world and then continuously make them better for you and I to use.