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Originally Posted by birick
A jury found RIM guilty of patent infringment. The judge was simply tired of RIM failing to comply with the sentence imposed on them when they were foung guilty. So were most of us I think. RIM probably lost way more than $612M in the years they spent trying to avoid paying for what they stole.
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How can you be guilty of infringing on invalid patents? Yes, they were found guilty, and yes they appealed, since they felt the patents were invalid. There never was a sentence imposed. The judge told both parties they had to negotiate a settlement or he would impose one, yet he never did. The (un)funny thing is that just as the patent office was about to rule the patents invalid the judge decided it was time to wrap things up. RIM had to pay the ransom - though NTP had to accept much less than if they knew they had valid patents.