A northern California jury destined Research in Motion Ltd to compensate $147.2 million in obvious lawsuit over a remote government complement for wireless devices, according to an profession for a plaintiff, Mformation Technologies Inc.
The outcome on Friday in a San Francisco sovereign justice comes
during a bad time for RIM, whose batch has depressed some-more than 70 percent in a past year as business desert a BlackBerry in preference of Apple’s iPhone and a slew of inclination regulating Google Inc’s Android software.
Amar Thakur, an profession for Mformation, pronounced a jury destined RIM to compensate an $8 kingship for each BlackBerry device connected to RIM’s craving server software, that brings a sum endowment to $147.2 million. The outcome usually covers U.S. sales by trial, Thakur said, and not destiny or unfamiliar damages.
RIM mouthpiece Crystal Roberts pronounced a association has tentative authorised motions that could overturn a verdict.
“Research In Motion has worked tough to rise a leading-edge BlackBerry technology,” Roberts pronounced in a statement.
Based in Waterloo, Ontario, RIM final month posted a initial handling detriment in 8 years, and it was most deeper than expected. The association also pronounced it was slicing 5,000 jobs, roughly a third of a workforce, as it struggles win behind a repute as an attention innovator.
Mformation sued RIM in 2008, bringing claims on a obvious for a routine that remotely manages a wireless device over a wireless network, a justice filing says. According to a web site, Mformation helps companies conduct their smartphone inventory. The association also says it helps telecoms operators, such as ATT and Sprint, with remote fixes and upgrades for users’ gadgets.
RIM argued that Mformation’s obvious claims are shabby since a processes were already being used when Mformation filed a obvious application.
The jury deliberated for 4 days this week before handing down a verdict, Thakur said.
The box in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California is Mformation Technologies Inc. vs. Research in Motion Ltd. et al., 08-04990.