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UT System Statement
UT Regents Receive Settlement in Patent Suit
August 1, 2005
AUSTIN – The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System has reached a settlement in a patent infringement lawsuit against Research in Motion Limited and Research in Motion Corp.
Research in Motion, maker of the popular RIM Blackberry devices, paid the Board of Regents $1.8 million. A portion of this amount was in the form of an unrestricted research grant to The University of Texas at Arlington. In return, Research in Motion obtained license rights to the Board of Regents’ United States Patent No. 4,674,112 (the ‘112 Patent), titled “Character Pattern Recognition and Communications Apparatus.”
Research in Motion Limited and Research in Motion Corp. are two of over 40 entities named in three lawsuits filed by the Board of Regents in relation to the '112 Patent earlier this year in U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas.
Contacts
| Anthony de
Bruyn University of Texas System (512) 499-4363 adebruyn@utsystem.edu |
Background Materials
Copies of the settlement agreement, license, and research grant are available at http://www.112patent.com/.
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