Research in Motion (RIM) is a Canadian company whose major product and service is the BlackBerry wireless mobile device. RIM has over 3 million customers in the United States. The success of the BlackBerry is largely dependent on five patents held by RIM. If these patents cannot be successfully defended by RIM, then competitors will be free to duplicate the BlackBerry and erode RIM’s significant share of the market. Patents in information technology are complicated and often overlapping so that there can be disagreement over which patents relate to a particular product and who legally controls those patents. Another threat in this industry comes from companies that are formed solely for the purpose of holding patents and preventing other companies from violating them. Apply the legal risk model to the environment and circumstances faced by RIM. How well does the model work when the survival of the business depends on a vulnerable form of intellectual property such as these patents?