BlackBerry’s end of days
Permalink | October 27th, 2005
Chief Justice John Roberts has denied a stay by the Supreme Court in the R.I.M. vs NTP BlackBerry case.
The company, Research In Motion, is appealing a patent infringement verdict to the high court and sought to freeze lower court proceedings while the appeal was pending. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. denied the company’s request for a stay, without comment.
Lawyers for Research in Motion argued that its business would be harmed irreparably if the court did not delay the return of the case to the lower court where the company was found guilty in 2003 of violating patents held by NTP Inc.
The loss on Wednesday, which had been expected, does not say anything about the more significant issue of whether the Supreme Court will hear Research in Motion’s appeal.
Should the lower courts enforce their earlier ruling, all sales and operations of R.I.M.’s BlackBerry technology would be halted in the US, effective immediately. It’s a bit confusing that this case is still able to push forward even after the US Patent Office invalidated all of NTP’s patents. What a waste of tax payers’ dollars.
