Since the United States Patent Office grants patents freely and courts enforce them zealously, every inventive company lives in fear of trolls.
And in the meantime, BlackBerry is relying on very recent rulings that are coming out of the United States Patent Office, who are re-evaluating the patents held by NTP and saying, at least preliminarily, that these patents are not valid, which would make the whole case go away.
Last year it persuaded the United States' Patent Office to throw out a trademark challenge brought by Bacardi, a spirits firm now based in Bermuda and the maker of the world's biggest-selling rum.
On March 6, 2012, without much fanfare the United States Patent and Trademark Office awarded Apple Patent Number 8, 127, 982.
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It could take up to three months for officials at the United States Patent and Trademark Office to decide.
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Such a concept made its way out of LG HQ and into the hands of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, however, and three years after its submission date, the proposed device has returned to haunt the South Korean manufacturer, in the form of an issued patent.
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