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RIM Suffers Another BlackBerry Legal Defeat

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The $450 million patent dispute settlement between the Canadian-based makers of the popular BlackBerry wireless e-mail device and NTP, a Virginia patent firm, is invalid according to a court ruling issued Wednesday morning.

The ruling is another legal setback for Research in Motion and opens the door for NTP to press for perhaps as much as $1 billion in infringement damages.

The decision also possibly opens the door for NTP to seek an injunction barring sales of the BlackBerry in the United States.

Three years ago, a Virginia court ruled that the BlackBerry infringed on patents held by NTP. In March of this year, the two companies preliminarily reached a $450 million settlement, but further talks fell through in June.

RIM then returned to court, seeking enforcement of the $450 million figure.

U.S. District Judge James R. Spencer rejected RIM’s motion.

This article was first published on InternetNews.com. To read the full article, click here.

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