Most likely, this will all wash out and RIM will pay a fine of some sort to NTP. The simple fact is, NTP isn't totally insane and will do their best to get a reasonable amount of money from RIM. As someone here said, NTP could very easily be hurt by lawsuits from corporate America. It takes very little money or energy to file a lawsuit against someone (NTP). It takes hundreds of thousands of dollars to defend yourself. Not fair. But that is how it works.
If every Fortune 500 company were to file suit against NTP (and they could very easily do so) NTP would spend so much money on legal fees they'd have to shut down. Not exactly a fair "trick" but many companies do it right now. Each Fortune 500 company can come up with their own seemly legitimate issues, and NTP could never fight off 500 lawsuits.
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