Becoming an IV licensee provides access to additional products and services to address both short-term and long-term IP-related matters. As an IV customer, RIM can now complement its own strong patent portfolio with access to IV’s portfolio and can leverage IV’s portfolio in its future licensing negotiations.Source: Intellectual Ventures
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Apple Rival RIM Pays Up for Intellectual Ventures License
Of most interest is that the press release describes not just a license to practice the inventions in IV's patent portfolio (i.e., not get sued for infringement by IV), but also the ability to "borrow" the patents for use against competitors:
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