UT gets $1.8 million in patent case against BlackBerry maker
A little local news... Robert Elder writes in The Austin American-Statesman:
The University of Texas System today will announce a $1.8 million settlement of a federal patent lawsuit against the maker of the popular BlackBerry mobile communications devices.
The UT System sued Research in Motion Ltd., maker of the BlackBerry, in March, claiming that the company was infringing on a software patent developed at the University of Texas at Arlington. In the suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Austin, the university said the software was crucial to the method of text messaging through a telephone-like keypad.
The settlement is a small part of three ongoing patent cases involving the software. Besides Research in Motion, the UT System sued about 40 other telecommunications companies, including Sharp Corp., Toshiba America Inc., Audiovox Communications Corp. and Alcatel USA Inc.
posted by Fergie @ 8/01/2005 01:40:00 PM
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