{"id":534,"date":"2006-02-03T17:34:13","date_gmt":"2006-02-03T22:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=534"},"modified":"2006-02-03T15:06:31","modified_gmt":"2006-02-03T20:06:31","slug":"is-no-push-e-mail-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=534","title":{"rendered":"Is NO Push e-mail safe?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just as Good technology<\/a>, a push e-mail solution provider competing with RIM, was gloating about how customers could flock to them if in fact the NTP lawsuit forces a Blacbkerry shutdown, they too have now gotten a taste of bad patent medicine<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Visto Corporation<\/font><\/span><\/font><\/span>, a leading global provider of secure push email services, announced today that it has filed a patent<\/font><\/font><\/a> infringement lawsuit against Good Technology in a suit which alleges that Good’s products and services infringe on multiple patents held by Visto, was filed in the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Texas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Great, so now the backup plan for most Blackberry addicts is also at risk.<\/p>\n

So uhh, what’s next? Windows Mobile devices then? Not if Visto has a say: they’re suing Microsoft for patent infringement, too<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, it’s been noted that Visto has licensed quite a bit of technology from our good ol’ friends at NTP. This leaves them with the only current push e-mail soluion that hasn’t been directly challenged for patent infrigement… in fact, NTP stands to get nice royalties from Visto, considering that as part of the agreement, NTP has a direct equity stake in the company<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And with the ink barely dry on that<\/em> agreement, Visto filed a brief with the US District court in Virgina, asserting that in the event of a Blackberry service shutdown, Visto alone could “quickly absorb all U.S. BlackBerry users.<\/a>”<\/p>\n

Could they both be in cahoots to corner the push e-mail market? While NTP’s corporate structure consists entirely of lawyers whose job appears to be to find potential infrigement and sue away, Visto has a working push e-mail solution, of which royalties get funneled to NTP coffers and is pretty much the only solution that isn’t getting sued.<\/p>\n

Nah, there can’t be any collusion there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just as Good technology, a push e-mail solution provider competing with RIM, was gloating about how customers could flock to them if in fact the NTP lawsuit forces a Blacbkerry shutdown, they too have now gotten a taste of bad patent medicine: Visto Corporation, a leading global provider of secure push email services, announced today […]<\/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-534","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\/534","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=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}