Research in Motion (RIM) is a Canadian company that has achieved huge success based on its main product, the BlackBerry wireless mobile device. This success is largely based on five patents that RIM has registered in Canada and the United States. NTP Ltd. is an American company whose only assets are U.S. patents. NTP claimed that RIM had violated its patent rights through sale of the BlackBerry. NTP claimed significant damages and a court order prohibiting RIM from selling Blackberries. The dispute went to trial and a jury found that RIM had violated NTP’s patents. RIM later challenged NTP’s patent registrations. The two companies reached a tentative settlement of $450 million, but it failed. It was left to the court to make a final decision on the remedies against RIM. RIM’s profit forecast and share price suffered and its planned expansion into China was jeopardized. Shortly before the judge was to make his decision, the companies reached a final settlement of $612 million. Evaluate the strategy employed by RIM in this high stakes litigation.