Posted AT 10:21 AM EST on 06/03/06
Pizza, patents and patience
The $612.5-million (U.S.) deal that settled Research In Motion Ltd.'s long-running patent dispute with NTP Inc. was struck during a midnight meeting last Thursday in New York, over some of the worst cheese and pepperoni pizza ever cooked.
"You had to pour the grease off of it," said James Wallace, a Washington-based lawyer for NTP.
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