{"id":4069,"date":"2005-12-31T16:55:25","date_gmt":"2005-12-31T16:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/ntp-patents-rejected.html"},"modified":"2005-12-31T16:55:25","modified_gmt":"2005-12-31T16:55:25","slug":"ntp-patents-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/science\/ntp-patents-rejected.html","title":{"rendered":"NTP Patents Rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"><font size=\"2\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"http:\/\/voip-blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/blackberry.jpg\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"10\" border=\"0\" \/>The famous <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/voip-blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/rim-vs-ntp.html\"><font size=\"2\">NTP vs. RIM<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> blackberry case really brought the <place w:st=\"on\" \/><country-region w:st=\"on\" \/>US<\/country-region \/><\/place \/> patent system into the public spotlight. It seems the <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/voip-blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/rates-technology\/rates-technology.html\"><font size=\"2\">Rates Technology vs. Google<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> patent suits weren&#8217;t as shocking because we already became familiar with cases like NTP and Blackberry.<\/p>\n<p>Now it seems the NTP case isn&#8217;t a slam dunk like many thought it was. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently rejected two NTP wireless e-mail patents a second time. One of these patents is at the center of the NTP Vs RIM case. A final ruling will come from the USPTO in about 6 weeks. <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/12\/31\/technology\/31rim.html\"><font size=\"2\">Story<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\">.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The famous NTP vs. RIM blackberry case really brought the US patent system into the public spotlight. It seems the Rates Technology vs. Google patent suits weren&#8217;t as shocking because we already became familiar with cases like NTP and Blackberry. Now it seems the NTP case isn&#8217;t a slam dunk like many thought it was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,202,172,212,218,186,198,221,116,189,118,191,219,175],"tags":[259,385,482,386,673,17],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}