Research in Motion: a Study in International Intellectual Property

Also, it might be the business' best kept mystery. AT&T Intellectual Property is one of the world's biggest protected innovation operations, with a legacy of advancement that goes back over a century to Alexander Graham Bell. AT&T possesses one of the most grounded patent portfolios in the information transfers industry and reliably positions in the main 25 organizations every year in acquiring new U.S. licenses.

It is intended both to provide thumbnail descriptions of the various intellectual property regimes to economists working in this area and to indicate where additional economic research might be useful. The other papers in this symposium provide important examples of ongoing research on the economics of intellectual property. Suzanne Scotchmer analyzes the complex effects of patent protection when innovation is cumulative. Rather than analyzing situations in which several firms vie to develop the same innovation-the approach of the "patent race" literature-her analysis examines circumstances in which only one firm can develop an initial innovation but others can also build upon it. She focuses on how the incentive to develop both the initial and subsequent inventions may be affected by the scope of patent protection. Janusz Ordover considers ways of adjusting the patent system that may help to both provide returns to the inventor, and encourage the diffusion of the innovation in the economy. His paper is part of a line of work that explores the place of the intellectual property system among the large number of institutions that affect the amount and nature of research and development that takes place. In the final paper, David

The company you work for has just woken up, smelled the coffee, and realized the potential impact of disruptive innovation on its strategy and its ultimate survival. In particular, your company wishes to avoid Research in Motion (RIM)’s fate in the smartphone devices and mobile operating software systems markets. As part of your company’s reassessment of its current situation, you have been tasked with providing an overview and summary analysis of RIM’s organizational strategy during those critical years when RIM went from dominant market leader to little more than an inconsequential player in the smartphone devices and mobile operating software systems markets. Your analysis

RIM was able to develop the pagers to send messages and emails on either network. RIM broke away from the pack in September of 1996 when it introduced its ‘Inter@ctive’ pager. Developed jointly with Intel, Inter@ctive was a game changer due to having a built-in contact manager, scheduler, a 16-bit operating system, a full QWERTY keyboard, a display that showed up to 4 lines of text, and could hold up to 100KB of data. The list price was about $675, not including service fees. It was released in 1997 and quickly became the company’s best-know product (“Research In Motion,” 2003).

court had to decide whether Microsoft was acting a a monopoly and crushing the competition by

Jain, S. C., & Bird, R. (2008). The Global Challenge of Intellectual Property Rights. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.

The court had to decide whether this action by Microsoft was a legal move that provided

Lazairdis co-founder of Blackberry which was formally known as Research in Motion (RIM) with his childhood best friend and fellow student Mr. Fregin invented the BlackBerry, with the profits made from a re-designed popular game Reach for the Loops. They created a new and so called revolutionary smartphone industry, and built Canada’s largest global tech business. They founded Research in Motion which was a business consulting electronics and computer science that later focused on developing a wireless transmission of data. Wireless data such as emails, text messages, and wireless terminals. Lazaridis and Fregin were later joined by a student from Waterloo University by the name of Michael Barnstijn, in 1969 the three young men were awarded a $600,000 contract by General Motors for creating Research in Motion. Till this day Blackberry is yet to hold Canada’s top tech spot. Lazairdis held many positions including Co-CEO and Co-Chairman from 1984 to 2012 and as well as Board vice Chair and Chair of the Innovation Committee

The United States Department of Justice initiated this investigation; with the main purpose of answering whether Microsoft’s actions were breaking the laws that had been put in place by the Sherman and Clayton Act. Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, from the United States District Court, for the District of Columbia, heard the case. Judge Jackson decided that Microsoft was a monopoly and that it had acted in such a way as to hinder competition. Finally, the court ordered that Microsoft become two different companies. No longer could Microsoft produce its operating system, and produce other software under one banner. (Civil Action No. 98-1232 (TPJ), No. 98-1233

The result of fierce patent battle launched by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) against the iPhone maker targeting the company’s newest chips has left the company payable of more than 850 million dollars. Cupertino, California-based Apple denied any infringement and argued the patent is invalid, according to court papers. According to a recent ruling by U.S. District Judge William Conley, who is presiding over the case, Apple could be liable for up to $862.4 million in damages. He scheduled the trial to proceed in three phases: liability, damages, and finally, whether Apple infringed the patent willfully, which could lead to enhanced penalties.

Research In Motion (RIM) is a Canadian multinational telecommunications company that designs, manufactures and sells cellular phones and other communication devices. RIM’s success started in August 1998 when they launched the inter@active pager 950. In 2003 RIM became one of the most recognized brand names with the introduction of their most popular device the BlackBerry. In June 2011, RIM announced that

Description: The U.S. Supreme Court denied a request from Google to hear a case in which it was accused of infringing Oracle copyrights by using Java in its Android mobile operating system.

On July 2003, while still involved on the NTP and Good Technology lawsuits, they also filed a suit against Xerox filed as a response to some patent discussions made by Xerox that could have affected RIM. Almost two months after the agreement settled with NTP, Visto sued RIM for infringement of four patents. And recently on January 2010 Motorola requested to ban all of the Blackberry phones from being imported into the US and filed a lawsuit claiming that they have infringed on multiple patent. RIM already won a case to Motorola on the UK but they are still fighting with Motorola about this in the US.

Papermaster was intimately aware of IBM secrets after being prominently employed there, and was inevitably putting IBM at a disadvantage by influencing Apple through normal job duties. Papermaster could not possibly forget what he had learned at IBM, and while he was unlikely to reveal IBM’s strategies directly, he was likely to unconsciously influence counterstrategies at Apple because he would be loyal to Apple and would be working in Apple’s best interest. It was up to the court to rule whether IBM’s claim of irreparable harm had basis in reality. During his employment at IBM, Papermaster had signed a non-competition agreement, which was also a topic of the court’s consideration. Papermaster argued that the agreement was unnecessarily broad, and that not only were Apple and IBM not significant competitions, but also that his present position was distinct in nature from the position he held at IBM. An industry panel decided that the two companies were in fact significant competitors, and the court ruled that IBM’s argument of irreparable harm was justified by the existence of the comprehensive non-competition agreement. It decided that its broad scope was necessary considering that IBM is an international company whose most valuable assets are

Research In Motion Limited (RIM) was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada but has multinational operations with offices in North America, Asia-Pacific and Europe.