NTP Says RIM Mischaracterizing its Patents

Ever weaving, ever tangling: in a statement today, patent-holding company NTP says BlackBerry maker RIM is "flatly wrong" to characterize its patents as invalid.

The day before Canadian BlackBerry maker Research in Motion and patent holding company NTP are set to go before a federal judge who may order the U.S. shutdown of the BlackBerry service, the war of words between the two camps has escalated. In a statement to the press today, NTP claims RIM has “inaccurately characterized” NTP’s patents as invalid.

NTP acknowledges the patents are undergoing a reexamination process, but asserts that, in legal terms, none of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s actions to date