It emerged last week that Canadian technology firm, Research in Motion has agreed to license disputed technology crucial to its BlackBerry wireless e-mail devices from US patent holding firm, NTP.
NTP had argued successfully in several US courts that the function in the devices which automatically receives and displays new e-mail messages without any prompting from the end user represented an infringement of its intellectual property, leading the Canadian government to intervene in the matter on RIM's behalf
Under the terms of the settlement reached between RIM and NTP, the former firm has agreed to pay the latter $450 million, in return for which it will be permitted to continue to market the devices without interference.
According to reports in the US media, Research In Motion has not given further details of the settlement, announcing that it will disclose more on April 5.
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