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1. Small-to-medium size LCD panel demand rebounds in July

   (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

   ... small size panel segment, makers such as AU Optronics (AUO), Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO), Wintek and Giantplus Technology benefited from strengthening seasonal demand from international handset vendors ...

2. Lackluster small- to medium-size panel demand affects June revenues for makers

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

   ... Giantplus Technology posted June consolidated revenues of $30.8 million, down 5% from May and down 14% on year, according to data from the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE). More here at Digitimes.  ...

3. RIM sues Samsung over "BlackJack" phone

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... and back in March it settled a nasty patent battle with NTP, a patent holding company, for $612.5 million dollars. Interestingly enough, Cingular Wireless sells both the Samsung BlackJack and the RIM BlackBerry ...

4. Palm rejects NTP's lawsuit claims

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Threatened by a potential shutdown of its Blackberry network, Research in Motion settled a patent infringement lawsuit filed by NTP with a $612.5 million payment earlier this year. Now, Palm fins itself ...

5. NTP back with a vengeance - sues Palm

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   NTP, the company famous for suing Research in Motion, has filed another patent infringement lawsuit, this time against Palm. The complaint filed in United States District Court in Virginia requests that ...

6. ICANN can't yank Spamhaus domain

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... the order on a Canadian company. Of course, this brings back nightmares about the famous NTP patent lawsuit against Canada-based Blackberry maker Research In Motion. One would assume that switching domain ...

7. RIM sales up, but profits slide

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... quarter. Back in March, RIM ended its long running patent disput with NTP. RIM settled the suit for $612.5 million.  ...

8. Not again! BlackBerry maker under fire from Visto for alleged patent infringement

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   The outcome some analysts dreaded - that Research in Motion, Ltd.'s settlement with NTP might compel other companies waiting in the wings to make similar lawsuits - is apparently coming to fruition. Today, ...

9. D-Link accused of 'killing' time servers

   (Networking/Networking Brief)

   ... time servers. Critics claim the way D-link equipment polls NTP (Network Time Protocol) servers is impairing their operations, leaving operators to carry unsustainable excess bandwidth charges. NTP servers ...

10. Case dismissed: Settlement with NTP for $612.5 million puts RIM in the clear

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    In the final act of one of the most gripping patent cases in history, BlackBerry manufacturer Research in Motion has agreed to pay patent holder NTP the sum of $612.5 million, to settle their dispute ...

11. RIM CEO indicates settlement with NTP unlikely

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... not willing to settle with plaintiff NTP. However, his lawyer left the door open for a one-time payoff to make the case go away. Richmond (Virginia) - Following last Friday's decision by US District Court ...

12. Analysis: RIM can now literally settle for less with NTP

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    In an interview with TG Daily, Info-Tech analyst Carmi Levy says that the pendulum has swung in RIM's favor in the ongoing BlackBerry patent battle with patent-holder NTP. The judge in the case is demanding ...

13. Victory for RIM: No injunction, but judge urges parties to settle

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... CEO James Balsillie told CNBC's Sue Herera that his company had always been willing to settle with NTP, but that the Virginia-based patent holder (now holding three patents rather than five) had continually ...

14. NTP accuses US Patent Office of violating federal law in RIM case

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Stopping one step short of an actual legal indictment, NTP, Inc. this afternoon issued a strong and blistering response to one of its patents having been finally rejected by the US Patent and Trademark ...

15. US patent office issues final rejection for one NTP claim

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    The US Patent and Trademark office confirmed to TG Daily this afternoon that it has issued a final rejection of one of the five patents currently being contested by NTP in its patent action against BlackBerry ...

16. Judge denies US government request for hearings in BlackBerry proceedings

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... ago, that apparently redefines the roles that BlackBerry servers play, while asking customers only to implement a firmware upgrade. The workaround, BlackBerry claims, would circumvent procedures that NTP ...

17. RIM announces "multi-mode" workaround for BlackBerry users

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    As NTP versus RIM patent fight nears its final stages, RIM has announced its "multi-mode" workaround, just in case the company would be forced to shutdown its BlackBerry service. Westlake Village (CA) ...

18. RIM wins patent action in UK, invalidating InPro claims

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... related to NTP, Inc., the American holding company making similar assertions in the US.  ...

19. Last of NTP's patents preliminarily rejected by USPTO

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

      From Reuters Reuters is reporting this afternoon that the US Patent and Trademark office has issued a preliminary, non-binding rejection of another of the last of five patents held by NTP, Inc. ...

20. Could the RIM patent dispute be settled before 24 February?

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... upon patents held by plaintiff NTP, Inc. Whether RIM could implement these changes before 24 February, is doubtful. So many are betting - and perhaps also hoping - that RIM will make an upgrade to its ...

21. RIM: BlackBerry shutdown may hurt US

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    ... the result of a long-running infringement case won by NTP, a tiny patent-holding firm. Read the complete story here. (Newsfactor)  ...

22. GCN: BlackBerry case may head to Supreme Court

    (Mobility/Mobility Brief)

    ... brief challenges an Appeals Court injunction against RIM, in favor of patent holder NTP. RIM filed the brief in December, claiming that the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in an August decision ...

23. Intel urges US Supreme Court to consider NTP versus RIM case

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

      Intel urged the United States Supreme Court to hear Research in Motion's (RIM) appeal. RIM has been locked in a multi-year legal battle with NTP, a Virginia-based intellectual property holding firm. ...

24. RIM reports revenue gains despite litigation, "non-settlement" costs

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    It would appear the only bleak outlook for BlackBerry manufacturer Research in Motion, Ltd., comes from negative projections with regard to its patent dispute with NTP. But even that issue has looked ...

25. Netgear adds stackable SMB switch trio

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    ... 801.x security, SNMP v2c and v3 support, Syslog with SNTP, rate limiting and Layer 3 prioritization. All are managable via SNMP, NETGEAR's NMS100 ProSafe Network Management System, or via a browser-based ...

26. US Patent Office rejects another NTP patent

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

      Three patents down, two to go. Bloomberg is reporting that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has rejected a third patent by NTP. The company is currently embroiled in a legal battle ...

27. Blackberry maker in talks over patent dispute

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

      Research In Motion saw its share price jump Thursday on the Toronto Stock Exchange after the maker of the BlackBerry wireless device said it has been speaking to patent holding firm NTP through ...

28. Norwegian company may save RIM in legal battle with NTP

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    The legal battle between NTP and RIM was joined by a third company from Norway. With a string of court losses and facing a possible shutdown of their Blackberry surface, RIM got an unexpected win today ...

29. Judge nullifies settlement between RIM and NTP

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    U.S. District Judge James R. Spencer has ruled that the settlement between RIM, makers of Blackberry, and NTP is invalid. This paves the way for a possible injunction and shutdown of service for the millions ...

30. RIM says injunction won't stop BlackBerry

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    ... Jim Balsillie said the company recently completed a software upgrade that it may deploy in a bid to work around the patents involved in its legal dispute with NTP. Read the complete story here. (eWeek) ...

31. Canada gets newest Intel-based BlackBerry, while US faces more grim prospects

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... the US Patent and Trademark Office to determine whether the patent claims made by plaintiff NTP are valid, before possibly upholding an injunction on BlackBerry operations in the US, sought by NTP. The ...

32. Supreme Court refuses to stay RIM infringement ruling

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... This morning, trading resumed, and prices continued to rise sharply throughout the morning, perhaps in anticipation of a settlement of the case, brought against it by patent holder NTP.  ...

33. Internet Explorer to feature XML-based content labeling feature

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... of FrontPage, Microsoft's entry-level Web site design system, will be able to include ICRAplus labels in their site deployments. Earlier implementations of the ICRA system consisted of very simple flags ...

34. RIM faces US Blackberry injunction

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

      NTP is to ask a US District Court to confirm an injunction banning the sale of Research in Motion's Blackberry devices in the States after the US Court of Appeals threw out a request to put the ...

35. RIM deal with Palm signals the emergence of BlackBerry as a software platform

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... device that is very common, you're essentially a little baby Microsoft." With experts continuing to predict a hefty settlement of RIM's dispute with NTP, is the fact that RIM may need plenty of cash on ...

36. The BlackBerry battle: Could RIM lose all rights to mobile e-mail in the US?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... that develop technology primarily for US markets, may find themselves the subjects of US-based litigation. NTP, the plaintiff, is not a manufacturer. It is simply a holder of patents, whose revenue is ...

37. RIM settles NTP lawsuit for $450 million

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Research In Motion has settled its remaining differences with its legal nemesis, NTP, paying $450 million for the privilege, the erstwhile adversaries revealed today. Research In Motion has settled ...

38. Wireless patent suit still murky

    (Mobility/Mobility Brief)

    ... fight between RIM and a tiny Virginia company called NTP, a U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a U.S. District Court ruling that RIM infringed on 11 NTP patents. Read the complete story here. (USA today)  ...

39. Nokia licenses disputed BlackBerry patents

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      The long running dispute between RIM, the manufacturers of the BlackBerry handset and NTP could be entering its final phase. The long running dispute between RIM, the manufacturers of the BlackBerry ...