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COPYRIGHT 2006 Ziff Davis Media Inc.
If there are still people who doubt the essential stupidity of software patents, they haven't been following RIM vs. NTP.
Three million U.S. business users live and die by their RIM BlackBerrys. The U.S. Department of Justice asked the federal court in Virginia to keep BlackBerry wireless e-mail service going because government workers need it.
The court, however, turned down the Department of Justice's request. And on Feb. 24, the judge who has kept NTP's action going is considering granting NTP an injunction that would shut down the mobile e-mail service.
The basis for all this? Five patents. Five, if I may say so, bad, lousy patents.
But who cares what I think? What should count...
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