Plaintiff:
SmartPhone Technologies LLC
Defendant:
Apple Inc., AT&T Inc. and AT&T Mobility LLC
A case (6:13-cv-00196) was
filed in the Eastern District of Texas on Feb 25th for patent
infringement. The patents involved in this suit are US7076275 (Method
and system for single-step enablement of telephony functionality for a portable
computer system), US7506064 (Handheld computer system that attempts to
establish an alternative network link upon failing to establish a requested
network link), RE40459 (Method and apparatus for communicating
information over low bandwidth communications networks) and US7533342 (System and method of a personal computer device providing telephone capability).
All these patents are currently assigned[*]
to Access Co. Ltd. (source: MaxVal’s Assignment Database). SmartPhone is the
exclusive licensee of the 4 patents as per the complaint.
The ‘275, ‘064 and ‘342 patents relate to the field of
portable electronic devices such as personal digital assistants or palmtop
computer systems. They allow a background task to run on a portable electronic
device facilitating telephony functionality. The ‘459 patent relates to the field
of information communications and to low bandwidth network access to internet
based information.
Complaint alleges that Apple is manufacturing and marketing
computerized communication devices including iPhone4S, iPad2, iPad3, iPad4 and
iPad mini, which infringe the methods claimed in the patents-in-suit.
Another case (6:13-cv-00197) was filed on the same day against
LG Electronics asserting the patent US7076275. If
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interest are recorded.
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