#1: NTP didn't back out of the $450M settlement because it wanted more money. Judge Spencer ruled the settlement "unenforcable" and invalidated it.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0...=wn_tophead_11
http://www.redherring.com/Article.as...RIM+Settlement
http://www.forbes.com/technology/cio..._1130rimm.html
Also, regarding NTP being a "patent troll":
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The trouble is that NTP, based in Arlington, Va., doesn't exactly fit the mold. It was co-founded by Thomas J. Campana Jr., a Chicago-area engineer who in 1990 created a system to send e-mails between computers and wireless devices. His wireless e-mail innovations were shown at the well-known Comdex computer show in Las Vegas.
Campana was working for his own company, but his primary customer, a wireless carrier called Telefind, was unraveling. To protect his work, he formed NTP along with a northern Virginia attorney, Don Stout.
"The guy did make a good-faith effort of starting his own company; It didn't pan out for him," said Charles F. Wieland III, an intellectual-property attorney in Alexandria, Va. "He actually tried."
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http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wir...1331106&page=2
(sorry for hitting this thread so late -- I just noticed it from the weekly recap email)
