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Extraterritorial reach of US patent laws24/10/2007. Source: Century IP Group. F Jason Far-hadian 
 F Jason Far-hadian Esq., principal of Century IP Group, maintains that patent rights covering a system are enforceable, even if parts of the system are located abroad, as long as the control of the patented system remains within the US.
In a recent case that garnered significant attention in the telecommunications industry, Research In Motion (RIM) - the manufacturer of the popular BlackBerry® handheld device - was sued by NTP, Inc. for infringing US patents covering the wireless email technology incorporated in RIM's communication network. This technology enables a user to send or receive an email message via the BlackBerry device by connecting to an email server with a relay switch located in Canada.
In an interesting twist, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) ruled in favor of NTP holding that RIM potentially infringed NTP's US patent, despite that RIM's system partially operated outside the United States territories.
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