NTP Loses Small Battle in BlackBerry Case.(NTP Software Inc., Research in Motion Ltd)

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NTP lost a small battle in its big war against BlackBerry maker Research In Motion when a federal judge officially declined to consider several documents that NTP submitted in an attempt to prove that RIM is sneaky.

A Feb. 27 entry in a U.S. District Court docket includes a summary of an order "denying 'a' motion to have recently-produced United States Patent and Trademark Office documents entered into the record."

The motion referred to NTP's Feb. 21 request for official consideration of several documents that the holding company received from the Patent Office after filing a Freedom of Information Act request.

According to a Feb. 23 statement from NTP, there are documents in the Patent Office that "indicate 'RIM's' attempt to subvert the U.S. intellectual property system" by hiring Washington lobbyists to persuade the Patent Office...

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