“NTP, which holds a number of patents but doesn’t manufacture any products, filed a lawsuit Thursday in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Virginia against Apple, Google, HTC Corp., LG Electronics Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Motorola Inc. over eight patents related to the wireless delivery of email to cellphones,” Cheng reports. “NTP has precedence–Research In Motion paid the company $612.5 million in a settlement to prevent a potential injunction of its popular Blackberry smartphones—which makes it a legitimate threat to other smartphone makers.”
Cheng reports, “NTP is a privately held company co-founded by inventor Thomas Campana to hold the patents on technology he developed throughout his career. NTP calls him ‘the inventor of wireless email.’ Mr. Campana, who died in 2004, held 50 patents.”
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