okay, so final rejections of most of the claims have already been issued by the patent office, with the last of the patents expecting rejection in the next few weeks. there are no grounds for an injunction, although there would be grounds for past infringement penalties due to NTP. a settlement will be met within a week of any sort of injunction, in all honesty - and for a whole lot less than $450m. seriously, the sky is not falling. is rolling out a new solution really more cost-effective than rolling out RIM's workaround or, at the very least, waiting until everything plays out in court? i can understand the needs for having an in-house contingency plan, which i'm sure most companies have by now, but throwing your arms up and stating that hell has now taken over is ridiculous. if you're wanting to worry about a case, then worry about the Visto-RIM case that will be bound to be filed at some point here soon enough, and pray that RIM settles early.
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