A U.s. judge has RIM ordered to pay 147,2 million dollars to the company Mformation. The BlackBerry maker was found guilty of infringement on a patent for remote management for smartphones.
According to the court, makes RIM infringed on the patent with its BES software for business customers. Specifically technology to smartphones, to remotely manage: Mformation owns a patent on such technology. RIM is sentenced to pay royalties for the use thereof. There must be an amount of $ 8 per device on BES is connected to be paid: the total amount is therefore coming out on 147,2 million dollars.
Because it is an American patent, the damages only relate to Us BlackBerry’s. Also, the amount of 147,2 million dollar not relate to future devices with BB connect. Whether this means that there is a separate license agreement agreed should be is not known. The BlackBerry-maker has already indicated the compensation will be contested.
The lawsuit comes at a bad time for RIM. The company is struggling for some time with adversity, inter alia, by declining popularity of its BlackBerry 7 devices and the postponement of the newer BlackBerry 10 software. RIM made the presentation of the results known about 5000 jobs to go to scrap. Earlier there was talk of 2000 jobs, but the company seems compelled to be more staff on the street to convert. RIM currently has approximately 16.500 employees.
From the quarterly figures also showed that the financial is still downhill going: RIM suffered a loss of more than half a billion dollars on a turnover of 2.8 billion dollars. The revenue was 44 percent lower than in the previous quarter, in which the loss was still 125 million dollars was. Did RIM in the last quarter, worse than analysts had expected.
RIM was recently announced that the first devices with the long-awaited BlackBerry 10 in January 2013 to come out. The OS is already several times postponed, what frustration of shareholders. A number of them claim misled by RIM and threaten with lawsuits, as ceo Thorsten Heins in the past a rosy picture of the company. Heins has made it know that the current form of RIM is nothing wrong. There were, however, several rumors out that the company for the future, different options are viewing, including breakdown. It is therefore possible that RIM in the near future, partially or entirely acquired by another company, which Microsoft a few times in the air is called.