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Chapter Three - Lawsuits in Motion
Footnotes for Chapter Three
- See InPro II Licensing vs. T-Mobile USA and Research In Motion
- Research In Motion Ltd. 6-K for 12/21/04 and RIM Provides Update on InPro Patent Litigation in the United States
- Handspring was created by the original inventors of the Palm Pilot: Jeff Hawkins, Donna Dubinsky, and Ed Colligan. When 3Com bought Palm Computing in 1997, the founders grew unhappy with the new managers, left, and founded Handspring in June 1998.
- United States Patent: 6452588, A hand-held electronic device with a keyboard optimized for use with the thumbs
- See Geoffrey S. Goodfellow, “Real World Services for the Technological Elite”
- John Markoff, "In Silicon Valley, a Man Without a Patent", The New York Times, April 16, 2006
- Campana Patents: #5,436,960 - on July 25, 1995, and four others: #5,625,670, #5,819,172, #6,067,451, and #6,317,592
- U.S. Patent #6,219,694
- U.S. patent 5,159,592, by inventor Charles E. Perkins, assigned to IBM
- U.S. patent 5,278,955
- U.S. patent #6,317,592
- 1989 IEEE article by Richard Verjinski called PHASE, a portable host access system environment
- 35 U.S.C. 271 Infringement of patent. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this title, whoever without authority makes, uses, offers to sell, or sells any patented invention, within the United States, or imports into the United States any patented invention during the term of the patent therefor, infringes the patent.
- Barrie McKenna, Paul Waldie, and Simon Avery, “Patently Absurd: The Inside Story of RIM's Wireless War”, Globe and Mail, February 21, 2006.
- RethinkIP
- Mike Allen, "Bush Picks a Replacement for Harriet Miers,” Time, January 8, 2007.
- Simon Avery, "The BlackBerry Conundrum," Globe and Mail, March 1, 2006.
- Timothy B. Lee, “Patent Office Finds Voice, Calls for Software Patent Sanity”, Ars Technica, July 28, 2008.
- Industry Canada. Innovation Secretariat. Case 7. Research In Motion Limited.
