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Intellectual Property

Jul. 18, 2012

BlackBerry maker hoping to overturn $147 million patent verdict

After a San Francisco jury ordered BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion Ltd. to pay a whopping $147 million in damages in a patent lawsuit, the smartphone company will be pinnings its hopes on the court to overturn the decision.


By Fiona Smith


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN FRANCISCO-After a San Francisco jury ordered BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion Ltd. to pay a whopping $147 million in damages in a patent infringement lawsuit, the smartphone company will pin its hopes on the court to overturn the decision in the coming weeks.


New Jersey-based Mformation Technologies Inc. first sued Research in Motion in 2008 accusing it of infringing a patent for softwar...

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