[Vaquero]

Dingle

[proxy_user]

I guess if you shut down the Blackberries of Congresscritters, they will pass a law to fix the problem.

They have the full authority to do so.

[marine86297]

I just talked to Nextel yesterday about buying a Blackberry and was assured that there is a "patch" already prepared. From the sound of this, the "patch" may not cut it.

I'm not so sure I wanna buy a Blackberry now. Anyone know of anything better?

Semper Fidelis

[GovernmentShrinker]

This is fast becoming the most ludicrous legal proceeding in U.S. business history. NTP does not have final approval on ANY of these patents, and appears unlikely to get any, based on indications from the Patent Office. So meanwhile, they're being allowed to damage the business of the only user of the technology in question, and force that user to develop (at great expense) an alternative. If RIM actually has to switch to the workaround technology, they will make sure and keep tweaking it until it's at least as good as the technology they currently use, and make sure that it doesn't come clse to infringing any patent that NTP can reasonably lay any claim to. So by the time the glacial Patent Office finishes its work on these patents, even in the unlikely event that they do award NTP one or more of the patents, said patents will have been rendered virtually worthless by the development of RIM's alternative technology. It wouldn't be a bad idea for President Bush to issue some sort of executive order, postponing any shutdown of RIM's current system until the Patent Office renders its final decision, and simultaneously ordering the Patent Office get its act together and render a final decision quickly.

[NearlyNormal]

""I'm shocked that RIM hasn't settled," said Gary Abelev, a patent attorney with the New York law firm Dorsey & Whitney. The company had the opportunity to settle the case for $450 million last year, but that deal fell through. An injunction would prevent the sale of RIM's primary source of revenue in its largest market, effectively crippling the company."

Somehow this comment leads me to believe that RIM expects the US Government, itself a heavy user of Blackberry, to come to their defense at the 11th hour. Makes me wonder what, if any, "instructions" may have gone to the USPTO on their behalf.

[yobid]

Heck, I don't even own a cell phone. Don't want to be that accessible. However it's amusing watching every woman walking down the street yaking it up. Yak yak yak.....

[KC Burke]

see my post 14

[1Old Pro]

Look up annoying in the Dictionary: "Trying to have a conversation with someone addicted to Blackberry as they pull it out and check the screen once every 10 seconds."

[ElTianti]

Black Barry

[US_MilitaryRules]

If you like investment opps for patent infringers here is a co.

PTSC

[TC Rider]

This is a case of waiting to see who blinks first.

So long as the gov is not exempt from a shutdown, it will never happen. And I don't see how they can shut down the rest of us and leave the Gov up.

Cingular, our carrier, uses GPRS for other purposes besides Blackberry, so their GPRS carrier is not going down. My Blackberry server sitting near me is not going down. I'm not sure how they can even turn off all the Blackberrys in the country.

[Xenalyte]

At my last job, I took off two days before my wedding. My boss suggested, not even half-joking, that we get me a BlackBerry for those two days.

As if I would just up and drop all the wedding prep for a legal marketing "emergency."

I mean, really.