The RIM versus NTP patent disputes have been going on for almost 5 years now. The twists and turns and reversals of fortune are now documented in a new article entitled Patently Absurd in the Globe and Mail. The article does not make note of or try to analyze the worthiness of the 11 main patents held by NTP Inc. but rather focuses on the 2 main personalities behind the dispute and the hundreds of millions of dollars at stake.
In the 5,400 word article, the Globe documents the origins of the patent fights, the backgrounds of the 2 main combatants, the chronology of the various trials and some of the “Non-final Rejection” decisions regarding many of the NTP patents.
In sum, the article attributes the fact that the dispute has not been settled, to the pride and stubborness of both inventors: Thomas Campana of NTP (now deceased) and Mike Lazaridis of RIM.
Patently Absurd – The Globe and Mail, January 28, 2006
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February 3rd, 2006 at 1:00 pm
Did you know that Mike Lazaridis was born in Istanbul?
February 3rd, 2006 at 8:48 pm
You’re right .. born in Istanbul (beautiful city) in 1961, arrived in Canada in 1966. The article only noted that his father had been a clothes saleman in Turkey.
June 7th, 2007 at 7:46 am
When was he born, as in the date?
December 5th, 2008 at 8:20 am
RIM makes the best phones…..bar none.