Case Filed: Oct 12, 2012
Case Closed: Apr 24, 2013
Court: Texas Eastern District
Court
Judge: Rodney Gilstrap
Other Defendants: Ribbit Corporation,
BT Americas and BT Conferencing
Case Summary: Patent infringement case was filed against BT
for infringing US patent number 6192123 entitled Method and apparatus for initiating telephone calls using a data
network, issued on Feb 20, 2001 and expiring[i]
by Apr 14, 2017. The patent is currently assigned[ii]
to Telinit Technologies (source: MaxVal’s Assignment
Database).
The complaint stated that defendants’
telephony services including BT OneVoice, Ribbit Mobile and Ribbit for
Salesforce infringe the ‘123 patent
.
The case has now reached an end
where Telinit and BT have agreed for a dismissal. Upon their request, Judge ordered
the case to be dismissed and all the claims asserted by Telinit against BT were
dismissed with prejudice.
See case 2:12-cv-00658
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[i] 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.
[ii] MaxVal offers Patent Assignment Alert service where subscribers
receive email alerts when assignments relating to target applications, patents
or entities of interest are recorded.
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