Research In Motion’s $147 Million Patent Penalty Reversed
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Research In Motion Ltd., the Canadian maker of BlackBerry devices, won a judge’s order overturning a $147.2 million patent-infringement award to MFormation Technologies Inc. RIM rose as much as 5.4 percent.
Jurors in federal court in San Francisco concluded in July that RIM software violated Edison, New Jersey-based MFormation’s patent-protected inventions.