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RIM to pay $147 million after losing patent suit

article published on 15 July, 2012

Struggling smartphone maker RIM will have to pay $147 million in damages after losing a patent suit to Mformation Technologies. The jury upheld claims that RIM violated patents taken out in 1999 by Mformation. Most of the software involved relates to "software that allows companies to access employees' mobile phones remotely for upgrades, password changes or to delete data." To ... [ read the full article ]

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jaydubva
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_ 		15. July 2012 @ 12:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Wasn't RIM already struggling as is. Could this be the proverbial straw that broke the camels back.
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JST1946
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_ 		15. July 2012 @ 21:29 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The last article they had about Rim said they only had about $2 Billion left.Pretty soon they won't have any left at the rate they are going.
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IguanaC64
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_ 		17. July 2012 @ 14:39 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I hate patents like these. The example above sounds like crap anyone would have thought up when you design a system.

Did this company actually create or contribute anything?
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Qliphah
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_ 		19. July 2012 @ 14:36 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
mFormation isn't like the other patent trolls they do provide a suite of software some companies have been using for more than a decade.


That being said, these lawsuits are still a horrible plague. Unless they can prove that actual code was stolen to run software on RIM's devices the case should have been thrown out. Unfortunately this case looks like the judge just looked at the description of the patent and said "Yep, they did it first".

Patent laws need to be reformed to the way they originally were planned. You must show a physical, unique, object. And prove that you are able and willing to provide said object to the public/consumer.
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DADEO1
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_ 		20. July 2012 @ 17:25 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Looks like a couple bosses won't be getting their bonus. Should have been a banker.
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