Patent infringement suits often take years to resolve, and sometimes require bet-the-company decisions by the litigants. The litigation between NTP Inc. and Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM) epitomizes just such a patent dispute. In the biggest game of IP chicken in recent memory, the primary question is: Who will blink first? Will RIM, the Canadian maker of the BlackBerry e-mail system, pay hundreds of millions of dollars in damages and licensing fees to avoid a possible shutdown of its system, or will NTP, a patent-holding company based in Virginia, agree to a monetary settlement that is less than its current asking price?
With the prospect of an injunction looming over the BlackBerry system, many attorneys have started preparing, in many different ways, for the loss of their BlackBerry connections to their offices.
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