NTP Sued RIM for $612 million: Now Suing AT&T, Sprint, Verizon & T Mobile

The same firm that ended up making RIM hand over $612 million are at it again and crazier than ever. NTP are vomitting a myriad of lawsuits at AT&T, Sprint, Verizon and T-Mobile too. Not only are they some of the world’s biggest earners, but they’re the states’ four biggest national carriers.

The whole infringements situation is over eight patents involving the likes of mobile email. The firm seems to be on the track to sue every company in the world that uses anything similar to mobile email, which seems slightly daft seeing as they’ve luckily won a few lawsuits in the past. Oh no, NTP won’t stop at a few hundred million dollars of money they didn’t even earn- they want more.

The patent holding firm which luckily won a $612.5 million settlement from RIM last year filed its complaints against the massive wireless carriers on Sept. 7 in the U.S. District Court. The lawsuits say that AT&T, Sprint, Verizon and T-Mobile have infringed NTP’s portfolio of patents by selling phones and software that enable mobile email.

Do you think NTP will win the law suit again? I hope not.