Simon Avery writes today in the Globe about the judge on the RIM-NTP case. It’s intended to be a bio piece (and is a great profile of Judge Spencer), but the story creates the impression that an injunction could issue tomorrow. Mark Evans emphatically states that that won’t happen. I’ll be shocked if an injunction is ordered tomorrow, and said as much to Tyler Hamilton in an interview in the Star a few weeks ago.
Simon is saying in a comment at Mark’s blog that he didn’t intend to suggest that this was a possibility, and that the headline is what’s not quite apt (reporters apparently don’t write the headlines) but I think the imminent injunction is suggested by a plain reading of his lead graph (“Tomorrow [the case] lands again, and this time there is a possibility the Virginia judge could shut down BlackBerry service across the United States, RIM’s biggest market.”) – well, perhaps it is unclear – but it could misinform readers who haven’t been following the story that closely. I’m wondering whether the Globe has gotten calls from RIM press people trying to sort this out.
Mark’s post has comments from both Simon and Tyler.