Visto wins patent suit, sues BlackBerry maker: News - Software - ZDNet Australia:
"On Friday, a federal jury in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas found that Seven had wilfully infringed on three separate patents describing components of a mobile e-mail system and awarded Visto about US$3.6 million in damages.
The dispute isn't over yet, as Seven plans to appeal the verdict and to continue challenging the validity of the patents in question through US Patent and Trademark Office re-examinations.
So far, one of the patents in question has been upheld as valid, while another has been rejected. Meanwhile, 'we believe minor alterations of the software will avoid the claims in the future, with no disruption to our customers or the user experience,' Harvey Anderson, Seven's senior vice president of corporate affairs and general counsel, said in a statement.
Both companies' services, which give users remote access to e-mail and data from behind corporate firewalls, are available through a number of the nation's largest wireless carriers, including Cingular Wireless and Sprint Nexte"
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
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