November 28, 2005 | posted by Michael Baxter in Uncategorized |

Wander around Liverpool Street and the station concourse: it’s awash with city types using their Blackberry mobile phone for sending and receiving emails.

In the US, there could be trouble ahead. There’s a legal dispute between Research in Motion, the company behind the Blackberry phones and a small private company called NTP. The dispute is not new, back in 2001, NTP first filed a suit claiming that Research in Motion had infringed one of its patents. At the tail end of last year settlement appeared to be reached and Research in Motion agreed to pay NTP $450mn.

Since then however, NTP has changed its mind, and for reasons not widely known is pursuing the case. This week, a judge will be deciding the issue, and it’s possible that the upshot could be no more Blackberry phones in the US - although the smart money seems to be saying this outcome is relatively unlikely.