Case Filed: Feb 25, 2013
Case Closed: Jun 12, 2013
Court: Texas Eastern District Court
Judge: Leonard Davis
Case Summary:
A patent infringement case was
filed by SmartPhone Technologies against LG and AT&T asserting that their
patents were infringed. The patents involved in this suit were:
·
US7076275 entitled Method and system for single-step enablement of telephony functionality
for a portable computer system, issued on Jul 11, 2006 and expiring*
by Oct 13, 2020
·
USRE40459
entitled Method and apparatus for
communicating information over low bandwidth communications networks,
issued on Aug 12, 2008 and expiring* by May 29,
2018
The ‘275
and ‘459 patents are currently assigned+ to Access (source: MaxVal’s Assignment
Database) and SmartPhone is the exclusive
licensee of the patents.
The
complaint alleged that defendants manufacture computerized communications
devices including, Android smartphones and tablets that infringe the method claimed
in the patents. Plaintiff sought a judgment in favor and all other
relief to which the Court may deem the plaintiff be entitled.
However, recently the parties
filed joint motion to dismiss, following which the Court rendered its final
judgment on Jun 12, ordering the claims and counterclaims be dismissed and each
party to bear the costs and expenses incurred.
See 6:13-cv-00197
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*
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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