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Just as I speculated just days ago, NTP has found some more lucrative targets to attack (albeit indirectly).
On the same day that it was announced that NTP had purchased an equity stake in Visto, a “mobile email startup”, Visto filed a suit against Microsoft claiming that they are violating 3 of its patents relating to wireless email.
Ironically, this news comes out on the same day that the US Patent Office rejected another of the 5 patents at the center of the RIM patent infringement case. All the patents in the case have either been rejected or are pending a review by the patent office.
Even though this next target is Microsoft who knows a little about defending itself in court, am I the only one that thinks this hot new industry (buy patent, sue companies with deep pockets, then profit) is terrible for technology?
