RIM's Balsillie speaks out on company's future

Things have definitely been going well for Research in Motion the past few days. As the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office continues to overturn the patents held by rival NTP, RIM's stock has been on a tear, as investors regain faith in the company's future. In the midst of this, Co-CEO Jim Balsillie sat down with CNet to talk about the company's controversial $450 million settlement with NTP, and the future of the Blackberry. Balsillie is, not surprisingly, bullish about RIM's prospects, and has a warning for other companies, if NTP is allowed too much leeway: " If they continue their fight beyond us — and they said that they would — they are basically granted a monopoly and it won't be much longer until they extend this patent fight to the carriers and handset vendors like Cingular, Sprint and Verizon."