The situation with Research In Motion (RIM), the makers of the incredibly popular Blackberry wireless e-mail devices, just seems utterly ludacris. Today the USSC deciede not to issue a writ to Blackberrry who appealed to the highest court in the land in their patient infringement case. As the Wall Street Journal said

RIM asked a federal trial judge to not issue a ban on BlackBerry devices in the U.S. after NTP filed for $126 million in damages, royalty payments and a permanent injunction against RIM.

NTP’s injunction request would cover sales and services of BlackBerry devices in the U.S., where the company generates 70% of its revenue.

Why does NTP not give RIM the oppurtunity to continue selling blackberry, while collecting a portion of the profits that RIM gets from selling blackberrys. Everyone I know who has a blackberry is extremely addicted to the device. Over the lifetime of RIM, i am sure that NTP could get more then $126 million dollars, and in doing so would get their money and keep people happy.