Great book!Random quotes –Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and the glory of the world…. And that’s the only lasting thing you create.At her last trial, before this last time she went to jail, the Mommy had sat up next to the judges and said, “My goals is to be an engine of excitement in people’s lives.”
NTP says that RIM is infringing on technology they own and is obviously looking to get a piece of RIM’s business in the US.I have not done further research on this, but it seems that this is the first headline case of a patent raider taking on a very visible and successful company and possibly winning in the court. There is a lot of economic research on patent length and scope and how increasingly patents are used for anti-competitive behaviour, but academia needs to step up the pace if it wants to keep up with how bad this has already become and suggest some solutions.See google news articles here.
