I have not commented on the RIM – NTP lawsuit before, mainly because it’s been out there in the press on a regular basis. But something has been bothering me about the situation.

If I understand it right, the lawsuit is all about RIM violating NTP patents. The US patent office has given preliminary indications that it will invalidate some or all of those patents. The court does not seem to want to wait for the patent office to give its final decision.

It would seem logical to me that the patent office decision is critical to the outcome of the lawsuit.

So why wouldn’t the patent office speed up and prioritise its decision, and the court slow down its process, and the 2 communicate their timing to co-ordinate it all?

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