Research in Motion’s annus horribilis just got horribler.
On Friday, a federal jury in San Francisco ordered RIM to pay $147 million after finding that the BlackBerry manufacturer had infringed a patent owned by mobile device software maker Mformation Technologies Inc. The jury found that 18.4 million BlackBerry devices directly infringed Mformation’s IP, and ruled that RIM had to pay a royalty rate of $8 for each of those units. Mformation was represented by Foley & Lardner during the three-week trial. RIM had Kirkland & Ellis and Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr.
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