First Final Rejection Of An NTP Patent - Final Final Rejection Still In The Future

[Ed Hansberry]

<a href="http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1040_22-6042049.html">http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1040_22-6042049.html</a><br /><br /><i>"The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a final rejection of one of the five patents at issue in NTP's long-running case against BlackBerry maker Research In Motion. The final rejection was posted on the USPTO's Web site for the NTP-held patent, which covers a system for sending e-mails over a wireless network to a mobile device. The USPTO has already issued nonfinal actions rejecting the claims in four out of the five NTP patents in question, but a final rejection is required before the appeals process can begin."</i><br /><br />Of course, they will appeal, and this is just one of the five patents in question. The other four have yet to have their first "final" rejection. I personally am more interested in the Visto patent suit(s) against Microsoft for patent infringement.

[Mr. PPC]

Last week I got a letter from Microsoft advising that we had to install SP2 for Office 2003 since they infringed on a third-party patent.

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[Ed Hansberry]

Last week I got a letter from Microsoft advising that we had to install SP2 for Office 2003 since they infringed on a third-party patent.
Yup. And Microsoft indemnified you and all of its resellers from the suit, minimized your downtime and kept you from having to replace your productivity suite with something else.