Yet another patent-holder has seen a huge infringement verdict against a tech giant go up in flames. This time, the defendant wiggling off the hook is Research In Motion, which took the news as an opportunity to lash out at the patent system.
In an 11-page post-trial order issued on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge James Ware in San Francisco vacated a $147 million jury verdict that Mformation Technologies Inc. and its lawyers at Foley & Lardner won against RIM just last month. Siding with RIM’s lawyers at Kirkland & Ellis and Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, the judge ruled that the jury had no legal basis for concluding that RIM’s software infringes an Mformation patent relating to mobile device management.
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