Research In Motion

Description

The head office is located at Waterloo, Ontario.

Before marketing Blackberry, RIM collaborated with Mobile RAM Dated and Ericsson with an aim of transforming Mobitex, a system of data transmission without wire, in a bidirectional network of emails and notifications ( paging ). The Inter@ctive pager 950 , introduced in 1998, crown efforts of this group. Of a size similar to a soap bar, this apparatus made it possible the group to enter in competition with SkyTel, a bidirectional system of notifications developed by Motorola.

It is into 1999 that the first Blackberry is marketed. It uses same technology as the Inter@ctive pager 950 and communicates via the network Mobitex. In 2001, the first Blackberry with Cell phone is introduced. First apparatus sold apart from the North America, it is based on the standards GSM and GPRS.

Since, RIM marketed various apparatuses which operate with the communication protocols GSM, CDMA, UMTS and IDEN. RIM sells components without wire and develops its own software in C++ and Java.

RIM is the godfather of a research center in Astrophysique, RIM Park, located at the north of Waterloo.

History

Mike Lazaridis founded this company in 1984 with Waterloo in the Ontario. It is at present Co chairman.

Lawsuit

In 2001, RIM is blamed by NTP for violation of eight Brevet S at the United States. In first authority, a local court condemns RIM, which appealed. In December 2004, a Court of Appeal confirms the verdict. In June 2005, another American Court of Appeal breakage partly the preceding judgment which condemned RIM, but the Court of Appeal of the Federal Circuit explicitly did not authorize RIM to continue its activities in the United States, while waiting to rule on its recourse in call near the Supreme court of the United States.

In 2005, the Court of Appeal concludes that RIM has indeed enfreint patents of NTP and RIM could thus be prohibited of sale on the American territory. Always the same year, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) again examines the five patents of NTP. If they can be invalidated, NTP will not have any more a ammunition in its battle against RIM. In February 2006, the USPTO already cancelled two of the patents, just like it expressed a doubt on the validity of the three others. Consequently, the judge retains any verdict, incentive the parts to be gotten along. This verdict does not make it possible NTP to oblige RIM to extinguish its communication network in the United States.

Blackberry is used by approximately three million users in the United States. Certain journalists estimate that a million American civils servant use it regularly, several being important decision makers. Moreover, it seems that the American national security would be concerned if the Blackberry network were extinct. That would explain why the USPTO acts with celerity in this file.

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March 2nd, 2006, an agreement occurred between NTP and RIM. The latter will pour 612,5 million USD to put an end to all continuations on behalf of NTP, which is committed in exchange not continuing RIM more, nor its customers and its suppliers. This decision of RIM shows its desire to pass to another thing, for example to concentrate on the arrival of Microsoft in this lucrative market which it has dominated for a few years. For more details, to see.

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