The federal court in Virginia has just ruled, and the news is bad - not instantaneously, cataclysmically bad, but bad.

Gulp.

Reuters reports that

"U.S. District Judge James Spencer said there was no escaping that RIM had been found to be infringing on NTP Inc.'s patents and he would issue a decision on an injunction "as soon as reasonably possible."

And to think, the Homing Pigeon is extinct.