More NTP lawsuits

From BusinessWeek online:

Technology November 8, 2006, 10:10PM EST
NTP: A Taste of Its Own Medicine

The company that initiated a patent battle with BlackBerry maker Research In Motion is now being sued over credit for its patents

by Arik Hesseldahl

The people behind the Virginia holding company NTP struck gold when they settled a long-running patent dispute with Research In Motion (RIMM) for $612.5 million in March. They hope to do it again with a similar lawsuit against handheld maker Palm.

By way of reminder, NTP says it came up with the technology used by both companies to provide wireless paging services. But now, Oren Tavory, a 43-year-old software developer living in West Palm Beach, Fla., says he got there first. Tavory says he did much of the work developing the technology behind NTP's patents. And since NTP has spun those patents into a big payday with hopes of another, Savory says he deserves part of the credit for the patents, and some of the payouts, too.