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Monday, November 06, 2006
NTP sues Palm over mobile e-mail
Update 20061107: Palm fights back and claims the patents are invalid:
Palm sez NTP patents are invalid, refuses to settle - Engadget Mobile
Companies like NTP are entirely focused on wringing money out of the hands of technology providers, hence are in my opinion destructive to the development of the industry. They are not competitors to those providers, as they don't make any products themselves. They only own patents.
For some reason mobile e-mail, despite being a very simple concept (e-mail over a wireless connection, right; that's information technology 101), has been plagued by law suits, where not only NTP is to blame. RIM, Visto and others have done their share of damage by cross-suing its competitors.
Hard words, but those of you who have followed the RIM/NTP patent suit and understood that there's no inventor behind NTP anymore, just lawyers and shareholders, hopefully agrees a bit with me on this.
Even worse, the stock value fall (8.1% !) of Palm shows the financial market sees NTP (and similar IPR companies) as a real threat to Palm. As things are not going too well for Palm at the moment, a license fee similar to the one RIM paid would be quite painful. It most likely will not be that high though, but if it's in the same magnitude it still hurts.
Time to read what the patents are actually about.
Palm hit by patent suit - Yahoo! News
Palm sez NTP patents are invalid, refuses to settle - Engadget Mobile
Companies like NTP are entirely focused on wringing money out of the hands of technology providers, hence are in my opinion destructive to the development of the industry. They are not competitors to those providers, as they don't make any products themselves. They only own patents.
For some reason mobile e-mail, despite being a very simple concept (e-mail over a wireless connection, right; that's information technology 101), has been plagued by law suits, where not only NTP is to blame. RIM, Visto and others have done their share of damage by cross-suing its competitors.
Hard words, but those of you who have followed the RIM/NTP patent suit and understood that there's no inventor behind NTP anymore, just lawyers and shareholders, hopefully agrees a bit with me on this.
Even worse, the stock value fall (8.1% !) of Palm shows the financial market sees NTP (and similar IPR companies) as a real threat to Palm. As things are not going too well for Palm at the moment, a license fee similar to the one RIM paid would be quite painful. It most likely will not be that high though, but if it's in the same magnitude it still hurts.
Time to read what the patents are actually about.
Palm hit by patent suit - Yahoo! News
