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=DJ Final Rejection of NTP's 451 Patent Mailed By U.S. PTO
By Stuart Weinberg Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
TORONTO (Dow Jones)--Just two days before a key hearing in Research In Motion Ltd.'s (RIMM) patent dispute with NTP Inc., the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a final rejection of one of the five NTP patents at the center of the closely watched case.
According to the PTO's Web site, it has mailed the final rejection of the 6,067,451 patent. The 451 patent contained two of seven infringement claims that were upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. RIM, maker of the BlackBerry email device, was originally found to have infringed on all 16 claims in the five disputed patents. The Waterloo, Ont. faces a possible injunction on BlackBerry sales and service in the U.S. because of the infringement findings against it. A hearing on the potential ban is scheduled for Friday in Virginia District Court.
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02-22-06 0919ET
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