{"id":311,"date":"2005-03-17T06:56:39","date_gmt":"2005-03-17T11:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=311"},"modified":"2005-03-16T18:57:43","modified_gmt":"2005-03-16T23:57:43","slug":"blackberry-suit-finally-settled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=311","title":{"rendered":"Blackberry suit: finally settled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/msnbcmedia.msn.com\/j\/msnbc\/Components\/Photos\/040907\/040907_blackberry_bcol_2p.vmedium.jpg\" alt=\"7100t\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fear not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackberry.net\">Blackberry<\/a> users: thanks to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/7205748\/\">settlement by RIM<\/a> of the patent infringement suit against it,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rim.com\">RIM<\/a>&#8216;s Blackberry technology can continue to be used in th US, now unhindered by any patents.  The legality of RIM&#8217;s selling the devices in the US was in question, after NTP Inc. sued Research in Motion.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NEW YORK &#8211; Research In Motion Ltd., the Canadian maker of BlackBerry wireless e-mail devices, said Wednesday it will pay $450 million to resolve litigation with NTP Inc., a Virginia company which said the devices infringed on in its patents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gee, only half a bil.  That&#8217;s a bargain these days, especially considering the alternative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blackberries will continue to bloom in the US. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}