RIM and NTP are fighting over patents, potentially leading to a shutdown of Blackberry service. When communications are privatized, patented, and intellectual-propertized, you learn to shut the heck up until the "rights" are set straight.

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Week's developments prove BlackBerry shutdown a race against time by ZDNet's Russell Shaw -- The way I see it, this past week's developments related to the potential shutdown of BlackBerry sales and services in the U.S. have everything to do with process.Earlier this week, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office issued a tentative final rejection of the last of five NTP patents that form the crux of the patent-holding [...]