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RIM also asked the court to halt legal proceedings until the U.S. patent office could determine whether NTP’s patents were valid. This week, noting the already considerable delay in these legal proceedings, and that the patent office could take as many as ten years to get around to reviewing the patents, U.S. Federal Judge James Spencer denied all of RIM’s requests, saying that “This court cannot and will not grant RIM the extraordinary remedy of delaying these proceedings any further than they already have been based on conjecture.”