Comments on: What is NTP’s motive? http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/02/28/what-is-ntps-motive/ The voice of the BlackBerry community. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:22:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: John http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/02/28/what-is-ntps-motive/comment-page-1/#comment-19001 John Wed, 01 Mar 2006 02:32:34 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/02/28/001443/#comment-19001 Interesting question. I don't understand RIMs motivation either. All they are doing is losing market share and forcing people who had accepted the Berry as a standard to look at other devices seriously. I know something about patents and I started reading one of the NTP patents. OMG. It was written to confuse the issue no doubt. I'm also wondering why they thing patenting push technology is legit. At the time Skytel was pushing messages and storing them on a server. I remember being able to retrieve messages that had been sent. It was a feature they built in since pagers always lost signal. This was like 1992 - 1993. So there's your prior art. Then there is the question of it being obvious to someone reasonably skilled in the technical area. I think they fail on that one too. -jd Interesting question. I don’t understand RIMs motivation either. All they are doing is losing market share and forcing people who had accepted the Berry as a standard to look at other devices seriously.

I know something about patents and I started reading one of the NTP patents. OMG. It was written to confuse the issue no doubt.

I’m also wondering why they thing patenting push technology is legit. At the time Skytel was pushing messages and storing them on a server. I remember being able to retrieve messages that had been sent.

It was a feature they built in since pagers always lost signal. This was like 1992 – 1993. So there’s your prior art. Then there is the question of it being obvious to someone reasonably skilled in the technical area. I think they fail on that one too.

-jd

]]> By: John http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/02/28/what-is-ntps-motive/comment-page-1/#comment-482402 John Wed, 01 Mar 2006 02:32:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/02/28/001443/#comment-482402 Interesting question. I don't understand RIMs motivation either. All they are doing is losing market share and forcing people who had accepted the Berry as a standard to look at other devices seriously. I know something about patents and I started reading one of the NTP patents. OMG. It was written to confuse the issue no doubt. I'm also wondering why they thing patenting push technology is legit. At the time Skytel was pushing messages and storing them on a server. I remember being able to retrieve messages that had been sent. It was a feature they built in since pagers always lost signal. This was like 1992 - 1993. So there's your prior art. Then there is the question of it being obvious to someone reasonably skilled in the technical area. I think they fail on that one too. -jd Interesting question. I don’t understand RIMs motivation either. All they are doing is losing market share and forcing people who had accepted the Berry as a standard to look at other devices seriously.

I know something about patents and I started reading one of the NTP patents. OMG. It was written to confuse the issue no doubt.

I’m also wondering why they thing patenting push technology is legit. At the time Skytel was pushing messages and storing them on a server. I remember being able to retrieve messages that had been sent.

It was a feature they built in since pagers always lost signal. This was like 1992 – 1993. So there’s your prior art. Then there is the question of it being obvious to someone reasonably skilled in the technical area. I think they fail on that one too.

-jd

]]> By: John http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/02/28/what-is-ntps-motive/comment-page-1/#comment-482403 John Wed, 01 Mar 2006 02:32:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/02/28/001443/#comment-482403 Interesting question. I don't understand RIMs motivation either. All they are doing is losing market share and forcing people who had accepted the Berry as a standard to look at other devices seriously. I know something about patents and I started reading one of the NTP patents. OMG. It was written to confuse the issue no doubt. I'm also wondering why they thing patenting push technology is legit. At the time Skytel was pushing messages and storing them on a server. I remember being able to retrieve messages that had been sent. It was a feature they built in since pagers always lost signal. This was like 1992 - 1993. So there's your prior art. Then there is the question of it being obvious to someone reasonably skilled in the technical area. I think they fail on that one too. -jd Interesting question. I don’t understand RIMs motivation either. All they are doing is losing market share and forcing people who had accepted the Berry as a standard to look at other devices seriously.

I know something about patents and I started reading one of the NTP patents. OMG. It was written to confuse the issue no doubt.

I’m also wondering why they thing patenting push technology is legit. At the time Skytel was pushing messages and storing them on a server. I remember being able to retrieve messages that had been sent.

It was a feature they built in since pagers always lost signal. This was like 1992 – 1993. So there’s your prior art. Then there is the question of it being obvious to someone reasonably skilled in the technical area. I think they fail on that one too.

-jd

]]> By: RIMarkable http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/02/28/what-is-ntps-motive/comment-page-1/#comment-18996 RIMarkable Tue, 28 Feb 2006 19:06:14 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/02/28/001443/#comment-18996 <strong>NTP Co-founder on BlackBerry: “We should have taken the money when we had the chance”</strong> Let me first say that Don Stout, co-founder of NTP, didn’t actually say that NTP should have taken the money when they had the chance, however, I guarantee you that the thought has run across his mind. Hindsight, as they say, is 20/20. As the ... NTP Co-founder on BlackBerry: “We should have taken the money when we had the chance”

Let me first say that Don Stout, co-founder of NTP, didn’t actually say that NTP should have taken the money when they had the chance, however, I guarantee you that the thought has run across his mind. Hindsight, as they say, is 20/20. As the …

]]> By: GMS http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/02/28/what-is-ntps-motive/comment-page-1/#comment-18995 GMS Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:48:15 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/02/28/001443/#comment-18995 Ever watched "Deal or No Deal"? NTP reminds me of the greedmongers who take it too far, seeming to risk riches they may never find in their lifetime, for a chance at something only bigger. NTP finds itself with several offers, any of which should be sufficient to satisfy their grievance, but they seem hell-bent on a) a bigger offer, or more sinister b)crippling Blackberry service. This may ultimately play out leaving them with egg on their face and having to settle for an offer well below what they've seen in the past. We'll cast the Judge as the Banker, NTP as the contestant, and RIMM co-CEO's as Howie Mandel. In the audience is the NTP's founders widow - cheering on the David to go for more, draw some blood from that evil Goliath that is RIMM. Interesting. . . Ever watched “Deal or No Deal”? NTP reminds me of the greedmongers who take it too far, seeming to risk riches they may never find in their lifetime, for a chance at something only bigger.
NTP finds itself with several offers, any of which should be sufficient to satisfy their grievance, but they seem hell-bent on a) a bigger offer, or more sinister b)crippling Blackberry service.
This may ultimately play out leaving them with egg on their face and having to settle for an offer well below what they’ve seen in the past.
We’ll cast the Judge as the Banker, NTP as the contestant, and RIMM co-CEO’s as Howie Mandel. In the audience is the NTP’s founders widow – cheering on the David to go for more, draw some blood from that evil Goliath that is RIMM.
Interesting. . .

]]> By: GMS http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/02/28/what-is-ntps-motive/comment-page-1/#comment-482401 GMS Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:48:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/02/28/001443/#comment-482401 Ever watched "Deal or No Deal"? NTP reminds me of the greedmongers who take it too far, seeming to risk riches they may never find in their lifetime, for a chance at something only bigger. NTP finds itself with several offers, any of which should be sufficient to satisfy their grievance, but they seem hell-bent on a) a bigger offer, or more sinister b)crippling Blackberry service. This may ultimately play out leaving them with egg on their face and having to settle for an offer well below what they've seen in the past. We'll cast the Judge as the Banker, NTP as the contestant, and RIMM co-CEO's as Howie Mandel. In the audience is the NTP's founders widow - cheering on the David to go for more, draw some blood from that evil Goliath that is RIMM. Interesting. . . Ever watched “Deal or No Deal”? NTP reminds me of the greedmongers who take it too far, seeming to risk riches they may never find in their lifetime, for a chance at something only bigger.
NTP finds itself with several offers, any of which should be sufficient to satisfy their grievance, but they seem hell-bent on a) a bigger offer, or more sinister b)crippling Blackberry service.
This may ultimately play out leaving them with egg on their face and having to settle for an offer well below what they’ve seen in the past.
We’ll cast the Judge as the Banker, NTP as the contestant, and RIMM co-CEO’s as Howie Mandel. In the audience is the NTP’s founders widow – cheering on the David to go for more, draw some blood from that evil Goliath that is RIMM.
Interesting. . .

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