It appears that your BlackBerry is safe. After more than four years of litigation and a threatened shutdown, a settlement was reached between Research in Motion (RIM)–the manufacturer of the BlackBerry–and NTP the holder of several patents that RIM had allegedly infringed. There were a number of questions underlying this lawsuit. However, the core question that emerged in the final stages of the suit, when a shutdown was considered imminent, was whether the patents that NTP held were valid. Even though a federal court established in 2002 that RIM had infringed the patents, a review of the patents by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in 2005 and 2006 had declared at least some of the patents to be invalid. While RIM and NTP were in court dealing with a possible shutdown, and conducting behind-the-scenes settlement negotiations, a possibility existed that the entire exercise might be irrelevant.
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机译：看来您的BlackBerry是安全的。经过四年多的诉讼和可能的关机威胁，黑莓制造商Research in Motion（RIM）与RIM侵犯了多项专利的NTP达成了和解。这场诉讼涉及许多问题。但是，在诉讼的最后阶段出现的核心问题是，当即将关闭时，NTP持有的专利是否有效。即使2002年联邦法院裁定RIM侵犯了这些专利，但美国专利商标局（USPTO）在2005年和2006年对专利进行的审查都宣布至少有一些专利无效。当RIM和NTP在法庭上讨论可能的停工并进行幕后和解谈判时，存在着整个工作可能无关紧要的可能性。
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