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To: AZRepublican

WOW, extortion does pay after all! NTP was on life support after their claims were unraveling.

You mean having to go to court to get paid for your ideas is extortion?

13 posted on 03/03/2006 2:59:33 PM PST by null and void (I nominate Sept 11th: "National Moderate Muslim Day of Tacit Approval". - Mr. Rational, paraphrased)

To: null and void

>You mean having to go to court to get paid for your ideas is extortion?

Where in the Constitution does it say Congress can pass laws to portect "ideas"?

15 posted on 03/03/2006 3:01:02 PM PST by AZRepublican ("The degree in which a measure is necessary can never be a test of the legal right to adopt it.")

To: null and void

You mean having to go to court to get paid for your ideas is extortion?

No... going to court to get a payoff from somebody else's ideas, holding hostage millions of customers... that's extortion.

17 posted on 03/03/2006 3:02:54 PM PST by Ramius (Buy blades for war fighters: freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net --> 1100 knives and counting!)

To: null and void

You mean having to go to court to get paid for your ideas is extortion?

From what I've read, the ideas were NOT NTP's. They'd bought the patent applications from someone else and filed them on their own behalf. It was looking like the applications were going to be denied, anyway.

39 posted on 03/03/2006 3:38:22 PM PST by SuziQ

To: null and void

"You mean having to go to court to get paid for your ideas is extortion?"

Ideas? From what I've read they weren't NTP's original ideas to begin with and that is why the US Patent Office is invalidating the patents.

Research in Motion Ltd., facing the threat that its popular BlackBerry service would be shut down in the U.S. over a patent dispute, got a tip early last year from a high-tech industry official: Check out a library in Norway.

At a university in Trondheim, a city about 310 miles from the Arctic Circle, the company found eight Norwegian Telecommunications Administration reports going back to 1986 and 1989. The reports described a wireless-email messaging system similar to that used by BlackBerry.

The reports, it turned out, helped RIM fire back at a company waging a patent war against it. The company, NTP Inc., says RIM infringed on patents it holds. RIM argued the Norway reports show NTP's patents weren't entirely original. Although RIM is making progress at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the fight is still mired in court.

LINK

It's a shame that the US court system is being used for extortion for a company (NTP)that produces nothing but whose sole purpose is to hold a patent. It's ridiculous.

60 posted on 03/04/2006 12:24:02 AM PST by MissouriConservative (If the cops arrest a mime do they tell him that he has the right to remain silent?)

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