NovelPoint
Tracking (plaintiff) registered a complaint against Sony
Ericsson for patent infringement in the U.S.
District Court of Texas (case no. 2:12-cv-00756) on Friday, December 04, 2012.
Sony
Mobile Communications manufactures electronics products for the consumer and
professional markets. Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, it is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation.
The
patent US6442485
involved in this is suit is currently assigned[*] to NovelPoint Tracking LLC (source: Maxval’s Assignment Database). The patent entitled Method and apparatus for an automatic vehicle location, collision
notification, and synthetic voice was issued on August 27, 2012 and expires[†] by
June 12, 2020.
Plaintiff
says that defendant infringes the above patent by selling products including
(Xperia Ion, see Fig.1) that constitute a material part of the invention
mentioned in the patent-in-suit.
Fig. 1
NovelPoint
Tracking has filed suit against the following companies:
Company
|
Case
Number
|
Date
Filed
|
Status
|
Coolpad Technologies
|
12/04/2012
|
Pending
|
|
12/04/2012
|
Pending
|
||
12/03/2012
|
Pending
|
||
12/03/2012
|
Pending
|
||
12/02/2012
|
Pending
|
||
12/02/2012
|
Pending
|
||
12/02/2012
|
Pending
|
||
12/02/2012
|
Pending
|
||
11/12/2012
|
Pending
|
||
11/12/2012
|
Pending
|
||
11/12/2012
|
Pending
|
||
11/12/2012
|
Pending
|
||
10/31/2012
|
Pending
|
||
04/02/2012
|
Dismissed without prejudice
|
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assignments relating to target applications, patents or entities of interest
are recorded.
[†] Expected expiration date. Patent Term
Estimator is a free web-based tool
that automatically calculates patent terms and expiration dates for U.S.
utility patents.
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