A Dallas-based company Research In Motion Ltd. filed pre-emptive lawsuit in federal court in Dallas on the 31st of May 2006. It seeks a court ruling that Research In Motion technology doesn't infringe on a patent owned by a BVI-based company DataQuill BVI Ltd.
Both companies already have experience in patent rights litigation.
For example:
Research In Motion Ltd. - it has recently paid 612.5 million US dollars to finish a patent suit over its BlackBerry wireless e-mail device.
DataQuill BVI Ltd. - in 2001 it sued Handspring and the Kyocera Wireless Corporation asserting that Handspring's Visorphone and Kyocera's Smartphone used DataQuill's technology. This happened after Handspring's Visors sales were expanded globally to Asian, North American, European, Australian and New Zealand markets.
DataQuill BVI Ltd. is a company holding intellectual property rights that are related to using information exchange and information download over wireless telecommunications networks. DataQuill technology covers WAP, JAVA and BREWTM implementation on mobile phone devices as well as some mobile devices combining at least one of these Internet capabilities and an integrated digital camera.
This British Virgin Islands company was initially formed in 1993. Since then, it has secured rights in inventive technology, which today does not seem inventive at all – nowadays it has its commonplace in a variety of mobile devices, cellular telephones and handhelds. DataQuill secured this technology through worldwide patent protection in the USA, the UK, Australia, China and other countries. The company has many patents all over the world (for instance, United States patent. no. 6,058,304; European Patent EP0840248 / EP98200196.8 published on September 24, 2003 in Patents and Designs Journal No. 5966.
DataQuill is continuing a successful technology licensing to companies connected with the industry of wireless telecommunications. The list of licensees utilizing technology patented by this BVI company include consists of many well-known companies such as Palm, Inc., Novatel Wireless, Handspring, Inc., Glenayre Electronics. As to the products covered, they include very successful devices, for example, the Palm TreoTM communicator over one million units of which have been sold since its release in 2002.
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