WATERLOO, Ontario—A U.S. appeals court ruled in favor of Research In Motion Ltd. in the company’s patent case with InPro II Licensing S.a.r.l., according to RIM.
InPro filed a claim against RIM in 2003 that alleged the Blackberry maker infringed upon patents having to do with user-operable inputs such as a thumb wheel.
Earlier this year the English High Court invalidated all of the patent claims made by Luxembourg-based InPro, and a federal patent court in Germany rejected InPro’s claims.
RIM has been the target of several patent complaints. The company in March settled a long and bitter patent dispute with NTP Inc. for $612.5 million, only to be hit with another patent lawsuit filed by Visto Corp. just two months later.
