RIM files suit over BlackBerry clone
Published: 20 Jun 2002 07:32 BST
Research In Motion has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Good Technology, accusing the handheld start-up of violating its intellectual property rights.
Good makes handheld computers that, like RIM's BlackBerry devices, can send and receive email. The company had tried to pre-empt RIM's patent claims by filing suit against RIM last month. That suit asked a US District Court in California to declare invalid RIM's patent on a technology called single unified email, or to declare that Good is not violating the patent.
The RIM suit, filed in US District Court in Delaware, accuses Good of violating four patents and asks the court for an injunction barring Good from using the technology and for monetary damages, including attorney's fees
Representatives of Good could not immediately be reached for comment.
Separately on Wednesday, RIM announced that it is licensing from Ericsson technology for several mobile telephony standards, including the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), Enhanced Data GSM Environment (EDGE) and CDMA2000.
RIM, of Waterloo, Ontario, will make royalty payments to Ericsson and grant the Swedish company a reciprocal licence. Financial terms of the deal were not released.
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