Samsung, Apple, Motorola, HTC but also Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and the big American carriers will start paying for a license to use wireless email patents by patent troll NTP.
The original inventor Tom Campana died well before the first deal with RIM of Blackberry which earned his patent vehicle over 600 million dollar. Details about the new deal have not been made public.
Campana was a real American inventor with more than 25 patents. The wireless push email was already invented and registered in 1990. His last invention was the geo-location service which could help parents find missing children.
For this last invention he won a Consumer Electronics Show (CES) prize in 2006, two years after his death and to put it into perspective, a year before Apple introduced the first iPhone.
Unfortunate that his patent vehicle didn´t have any success during his life #patents 
I'm a bit confused here… from what I know RIM uses essentially different mechanism for "push" (heavily reliant on support by a cell phone network carrier) than the rest of the crowd – all of which essentially use "direct push" which I know was first pioneered by Microsoft in Windows Mobile… can one single patent cover what are two very different techniques and rather "tricky" in their own distinct ways…??
I can imagine +Oleg Kiorsak but NTI holds a long list of patents on wireless email. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTP,_Inc.
The tech world is dominated by patents these days. How long do these patents last for? Some patents are unbelievable like the scroll bar that gets hidden that was patented by apple. Should that be accepted as a patent :S ?
+Luke Psaila to answer the factual part: ´real´ patents last 20 years in the US while design patents last 14 years. The disappearing scroll bar would be a design patent.