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London Court Sides With RIM On Motorola Patent Issue

by Bla1ze on 4 Feb 2010 08:55 AM
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London Court Sides With RIM On Motorola Patent Issue

At least one court has sided with Research In Motion in regards to Motorolas patent claims. As reported by The Calgary Herald, the High Court Justice in London, England invalidated Motorolas  patent related to email gateway systems and went so far as to say even if it had been valid it hadn't been infringed by two communications systems used by Research In Motion.

Motorola had requested that the ITC look into the actions of Research In Motion and their use of Motorola patents but with the London court ruling, the chances of the ITC weighing in now have just gotten a little slimmer. Invalidating one of the patents called out in the claims to the ITC Motorola has no choice but to pull that patent from their paperwork and subsequent claim to the ITC.

[ PhonesReview via Calgary Hearald ]

Filed Under: News & Rumors; Tags: court, legal, Motorola, patent dispute, Research In Motion
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13 Comments

Posted by eatwelle Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 840 days ago

1 RIM - - - 0 Moto... RIM kicks ass...

 
 
Posted by Johnmar3 Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 840 days ago

Hello Moto-lose

 
 
Posted by aaronnn Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 840 days ago

HA-HA!

 
 
Posted by dxsanchez Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 840 days ago

Moto-who?

 
 
Posted by mjbesen310 Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 840 days ago

poor poor Motorola.... slowly dieing a painful slow death...

 
 
Posted by OHBULLET Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 840 days ago

Very funny

 
 
Posted by JRSCCivic98 Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 840 days ago

It's so cool when money buys power, judgements, and patents... well, maybe not that last one, we'll just use it anyway and hope no one cares. lol

 
 
Posted by StormJH1 Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 840 days ago

The graphic made me laugh. However, the correct Canadian pronunciation of "about" is "aboot". I know this having grown up across the river from Windsor in "Deee-troy-it"

 
 
Posted by thymaster Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 840 days ago

Wow the judge didn't hesitate to make a quick decision at all. Usually these law suit takes years to resolve and millions of dollars to make lawyers rich.

 
 
Posted by renovator Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 840 days ago

i've used a Moto RIZR-Z8 and i can see where their Menu and GUI claims are justified. but that whole grid-folder-scheme is god awful! and to be fair, that phone ran UIQ, a mobile OS that was dependent on a stylus, which the Z8 lacked!

but as far as e-mail patents are concerned, nothing beats RIM. i love receiving my g-mail over my 8900 Curve.

sucks for Motorola though. they were really putting all their eggs in one basket when it came to the Droid/Cliq/Backflip phones to the point where they're in the red and figured this RIM lawsuit would've been easy money. i bet you they took a lot of HTC's design techniques but won't mention any of that.

 
 
Posted by Applehater87 Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 840 days ago

Moto is really desperate apparently otherwise they would have done this sooner (not that it would have changed the ruling).

 
 
Posted by girlontherun Thursday, Feb 04, 2010 840 days ago

Motorola, you suck. Every phone I had from them, incl replacements, aand friends and family's phones... Always BROKE!!! If you have the droid, I feel sorry for you, in the long run. Hate Motorola.

 
 
Posted by Moon_Juice Friday, Feb 05, 2010 839 days ago

Motorola used to be one of the foremost telecom equipment manufacturers in the world. They may still hold the crown in some areas, like fire department pagers, two way radios, police and taxi CB systems, Bluetooth headsets, and so on, but the bottom line is that as far as consumer handsets are concerned, RIM is now king. This has nothing to do with Nokia's status as number one manufacturer of "dumbphones," this is about how RIM/BlackBerry is today what Motorola cell phones used to be back when Moto was still at the top of their game.