Research in Motion - RIM 1. What were some of the challenges that RIM faced to protect its intellectual property, and how did RIM handle those challenges? Research In Motion (RIM), a global leader in wireless innovation, revolutionized the mobile industry with the introduction of the BlackBerry® solution in 1999. There are multiple examples of the challenges RIM faced to protect its Intellectual Property as well as how those challenges were handled. One such example is RIM vs Glenayre Technologies
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1. What were some of the challenges that RIM faced to protect its intellectual property, and how did RIM handle those challenges? The following are two challenges that RIM had to face and how they handled those challenges: a. Employees at RIM: If you are an RIM employee with a company Blackberry, everything you say and do with that phone is property of RIM. According to Tindal (2009), employees at RIM are aware that the purpose of having a business phone is to conduct business; therefore
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NET-583 1/28/2015 What were some of the challenges that RIM faced to protect its intellectual property, and how did RIM handle those challenges? In 1984 Mike Lazaridis and Douglas Fregin founded RIM. Rim is wire based Telecommunication Management Company and its head quarter is bases in Waterloo, Canada. RIM is best known as developer of smart phone for business and government usage. In 2000 RIM faced great challenges from NTP (New Technology Products) ,a patent holding company which focused
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Case 2 – Research in Motion - RIM TM583 1. What were some of the challenges RIM faced to protect its Intellectual Property and how did RIM handle those challenges? There was a legal action between NTP and RIM over the intellectual property. RIM resolved the action. To protect its intellectual property, RIM agreed to pay $612.5 million to NTP Inc. to settle the fight. The dispute had threatened to end RIM's BlackBerry e-mail service to millions of users in the U.S. and has been the subject
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What were some of the challenges that RIM faced to protect its intellectual property, and how did RIM handle those challenges? RIM’s success in the industry of wireless technology, more specifically, the e-mail wireless communications, made the organization’s intellectual property a prime target for adversaries that were not involved in the technological innovation industry, but for patent holding firms that were sitting in the background waiting patiently for a big fish to fall prey of their
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Motion - RIM NETW583 05/20/14 1. What were some of the challenges that RIM faced to protect its intellectual property, and how did RIM handles those challenges? In 2000, RIM encountered a huge challenge in the form of New Technology Products (NTP), a holding patent company. NTP notified RIM of their patents that RIM wireless email service infringed upon and offered a license. However, RIM argued that there is no infringement as its replay stations were in Canada
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Research in Motion Research in Motion Limited (RIM) as it is also known as a maker of Blackberry was founded in 1984 by Douglas Fregin and Mike Lazaridis. Both were engineering students when they first started out. RIM started out as a wireless and telecommunications equipment company which was based in Waterloo, Canada. One of Rim’s main target customers were business and government organizations (Wikipedia, 2014). In my opinion, I would say that RIM was the first to come out with an innovation
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Case Analysis 2 - Research in Motion (RIM) History of RIM & Product Development Jacqueline M. Leotaud jacqueline.leotaud@yahoo.com NETW583: Strategic Management of Technology Professor Samanta July 28, 2013 Jacqueline Leotaud Case Analysis 2 - Research in Motion NETW583 July 28, 2013 What were some of the challenges that RIM faced to protect its intellectual property, and how did RIM handle those challenges? Largely considered the world’s most valuable and influential
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Research In Motion (RIM) is a leading manufacturer and distributor of innovative wireless mobile devices that incorporate both email and voice solution for the mobile telecommunication market for the mobile communications market globally. The company was founded in 1984 in Waterloo, Ontario and had grown dramatically that included strategic opening of offices in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. RIM business is focuses on integrated hardware development, software application and telecommunication
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In this case we will be talking about the company RIM (Research in Motion) and some of the Challenges they faced to protect their Intellectual Property. Research in Motion is best known as the developer of the Blackberry smartphone. Research in Motion was involved on several Patent Litigation with the different competitors. On 1999 Glenayre Technologies (formerly known as Glenayre Electonics) filed a patent infringement suit against RIM claiming that the Inter@ctive pager line used Glenayre’s
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