Case Filed: Nov 12, 2012
Case Closed: Dec 05, 2013
Court: Texas Eastern District Court
Judge: Rodney Gilstrap
Case Summary:
NovelPoint Security filed a
complaint accusing HP of infringing its US patent US6442485 entitled ‘Method
and apparatus for an automatic vehicle location, collision notification, and
synthetic voice’, which was legally issued on Aug 27, 2002 and expiring[i]
by Jun 12, 2020. The patent is currently assigned[ii]
to NovelPoint Security (source: MaxVal’s Assignment
Database). The patent relates to a controller with a memory, a Global
Positioning System and means for wireless communication connectively disposed
within a vehicle.
The Court documents said,
defendant infringed the claims of patent-in-suit by making use of the products
and/or methods encompassed by claims of the ‘485 patent and cites Veer 4G smartphone
as an example of infringing product/method.
The case initially proceeded with
HP and later defendants including Acer, Pantech Wireless, Lenovo, Dell, Huawei
Device, Coolpad Technologies and Personal Communications Devices were consolidated
to this case.
It seems that all the parties
settled the case with NovelPoint and filed a joint motion for dismissal. Upon consideration,
the Court ordered all claims be dismissed with prejudice. No information on the
terms of settlement is available. Each party will bear their own costs and
expenses.
So far, NovelPoint has filed nearly
46 cases asserting the same patent against companies such as Sony, Honda, BMW, Hyundai,
Mercedes-Benz USA, etc.
See
2:12-cv-00716 for
more details. To get alerts on cases filed/closed, subscribe to our Litigation Alerts.
[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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