NTP, Inc is a Virginia-based patent holding company founded in 1992 by the late inventor Thomas J Campana Jr.
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11 Facts About NTP Inc
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NTP Inc owns an equity stake in mobile email start up company Visto.
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NTP Inc licensed its mobile email patents to Visto, Nokia, Good Technology, RIM and RIM's partners.
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On November 6,2006, NTP announced that it had filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Palm, Inc in response to the breakdown in licensing talks.
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In 2000, NTP Inc sent notice of their wireless email patents to a number of companies and offered to license the patents to them.
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NTP Inc brought a patent infringement lawsuit against one of the companies, Research in Motion, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
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Jury eventually found that the NTP Inc patents were valid, that RIM had infringed them, that the infringement had been "willful", and that the infringement had cost NTP Inc $33 million in damages.
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RIM and NTP Inc filed thousands of pages of documentation and expert opinions to support their respective positions.
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NTP Inc has appealed the final rejections to the USPTO's Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences.
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BPAI affirmed the rejection and NTP Inc appealed the decision the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
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On Dec 9,2010, Article One Partners announced that 3 of the patents held by NTP Inc would be posted to their online community to utilize Public participation in patent examination.
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