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RIM Files Countersuit Against Visto

By the Betanews Staff | Published May 3, 2006, 3:45 PM

Two days after being sued by wireless e-mail patent holder Visto, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion filed a lawsuit of its own, asking a court to determine that Visto's patents are invalid. RIM was accused of infringing on four patents, one of which is already under review by the USPTO.

RIM is now seeking to preemptively invalidate the other three, which are related to remote synchronization of data. The suit from Visto comes just two months after RIM paid a $612.5 million settlement to NTP over similar patent infringement claims. Visto is currently in patent litigation with Microsoft and Good Technology as well.

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SoftMax.net
May 4, 2006 - 9:15 AM

Wow, seems to be cool theses days to create patent and sue !!
Hrmmm... I'll create a patent for the action of typing on your keyboard I'd be rich! :P oh wait they would claim after a couple of years it's invalid! eheh!

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The Man
May 4, 2006 - 2:27 AM

glad i picked a treo

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thegameny2002
May 4, 2006 - 10:00 AM

I am glad i switched to the treo myself too

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