• NY Times, Friday, December 2, 2005 10:15 AM

After dodging one bullet, Research in Motion, the maker of the popular Blackberry mobile device, is still awaiting the decision of the United States Patent and Trademark Office as to whether the company's product infringes on a patent held by Arlington, Va.-based NTP. In a victory for the Blackberry maker yesterday, the patent office declared one of NTP's five disputed patents to be invalid. Research in Motion is facing a possible order to halt its Blackberry service in the U.S. A final decision on the patents could take years, lawyers said.

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