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"Having lost a recent patent case in Virginia, Research in Motion, maker of the popular BlackBerry device, has turned to a peculiar appeal strategy: We’re not based in the United States, so you can’t touch us.

"More surprisingly, the Canadian government and the Internet service provider EarthLink are now formally supporting that argument.

"R.I.M., which has its headquarters in Waterloo, Ontario, has become Canada’s technology success story, with a soaring stock price and two million subscribers, most of them in the United States. But hovering over the company is a patent infringement suit brought in 2002 by NTP, a patent-holding company based in Annandale, Va."

Ian Austen. In Suit, BlackBerry Maker Pleads Canadian. The New York Times. Jan. 24, 2005.

See also:
Associated Press. Canada Steps in on Blackberry Patent Row. MarketWatch. Jan. 25, 2005.

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