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Telecommunications Push email companies Visto & Seven settle patent battle
Telecommunications Push email companies Visto & Seven settle patent battle | Push email companies Visto & Seven settle patent battle |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Wednesday, 11 July 2007 | |
  
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In December 2006 The US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas upheld a jury decision from April 2006 that found Seven had infringed on three of Visto's patents. The Judge ordered Seven to pay Visto $US7.7 million in damages plus costs, a figure double that set by the Jury in April. However by that time the US Patent and Trademark Office had made an initial ruling that one of the patents in question was invalid. In a statement at the time, Seven said it expected that the Patent and Trademark Office's final rulings would reject other Visto patents while it appealed the December decision. However it decided instead to negotiate with Visto. The dispute was one of many that are or have been hitting the burgeoning push email industry. The most famous was that between BlackBerry developer, Research in Motion and NTP which threatened to shut down the BlackBerry system. That was settled in March 2006 with RIM being forced to pay NTP $US612.5 million. Within weeks RIM had copped another suit, this time from Visto. Visto has also launched patent infringement suits against Good Technology and Microsoft. Visto itself is reported to licence technology from NTP.{moscomment} |
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