NTP’s diet changes from BlackBerry to Apple
09 July 2010
James Nurton, London
Patent-holding company NTP has sued Apple, Google, Microsoft, HTC, LG and Motorola in a move the company’s licensing counsel described as “putting your marker on the table”
Ron Epstein, managing partner of LAWpotential, told Managing IP that, despite the suit, the Virginia company is “willing to be reasonable and offer a licence on reasonable terms”.
NTP owns a number of patents for wireless email inventions made by Thomas J Campana. The patents have been reexamined at the USPTO and in December the Office upheld 67 claims.
NTP last month filed a petition with the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to have more than 1000 other claims upheld,...
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