RIM Wars: Patently Absurd

Submitted by tuxtops on Mon, 01/30/2006 - 08:38

It's the kind of story even a careful newspaper reader might overlook. Tucked at the bottom of an inside page of The Wall Street Journal was a four-paragraph item beneath the innocuous headline: 'Pager Maker Gets Patent for E-Mail Delivery.'? Canada's Research In Motion Ltd. was suing U.S. rival Glenayre Electronics Inc. to enforce a newly acquired patent on its BlackBerry wireless device.