It's popular to play the blame game. Two weeks ago, Fannie Mae released the report of an internal review conducted by former U.S. Senator Warren Rudman and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. It is 2,652 pages, so please don't just hit … [Continue reading]
AT&T + BS – Cingular = ?
So AT&T is set to acquire BellSouth for $67 billion in stock. I previously thought that eBay wildly overpaid for Skype. But that deal, at a potential $4 billion or so, looks like a steal. There's something vaguely reminiscent of AOL's … [Continue reading]
RIM Shot III: Taking One For the Team
RIM CEO Jim Balsillie is entitled to wax a bit poetic when he writes a $612.5 million check to NTP. According to MSNBC and other press reports, Mr. Balsillie used this phrase when describing the settlement. Just one question: which team? As to … [Continue reading]
RIM Shot II: Nothing But Net
Well I was off by one day... Today RIM and NTP buried the hatchet and settled their long-running patent dispute for the sportly amount of $612.5 million. BusinessWeek has the details. The WSJ Law Blog had it first. For RIM, a few days ago they … [Continue reading]
RIM Shot
The raging dispute between RIM and NTP over BlackBerry has been prominent in the news for weeks. Some of the reports use the recent federal court hearing in Richmond, VA as a pretext for railing against the alleged failings of the patent system. … [Continue reading]
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