A U.S. appeals court refused on Friday to reconsider a patent infringement ruling against Research In Motion Ltd. in a case that could halt U.S. sales of its popular BlackBerry wireless e-mail device. The Canadian firm had asked that all the judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rehear and reconsider the ruling of a three-judge panel first issued in December. The case goes back to 2002, when patent holding company NTP successfully sued RIM in a lower court. That first ruling found RIM infringed on 16 claims tied to five NTP patents. NTP won an injunction in 2003, stayed pending appeal, to halt U.S. sales of the BlackBerry and shut down its service in the United States.

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