Case
Filed: Aug 08, 2013
Case
Closed: Dec 02, 2013
Court:
Texas Eastern District Court
Judge:
Rodney Gilstrap
Case
Summary:
SimpleAir, a non-practicing entity filed a patent
infringement suit against Microsoft claiming that their patents
covering data transmission communication systems were infringed. The patents
involved in this suit are:
·
US6167426 entitled Contact alerts for
unconnected users issued on Dec 26, 2000 and expiring*
by Nov 14, 2017
·
US8489707 entitled System and method for
transmission of data issued on Jul 16, 2013 and expiring*
by Jan 14, 2017
SimpleAir has also accused Apple, RIM, Facebook and
a number of others in the Eastern District of Texas of infringement of the ‘426
and ‘707 patents, as well as two other patents. The patents are currently
assigned+
to SimpleAir (source: Maxal’s Assignment
Database). The complaint said that Microsoft directly infringed
the claims of the ‘426 and ‘707 patents by offering for sale, selling, and
using the services: Lync Online, Lync Server 2010, Lync Server 2013, Xbox Live and
Windows Azure Service Bus Notifications Hub including the functionality of receiving,
processing, and transmitting notification messages to users of the mobile
devices.
In
Nov, plaintiff SimpleAir filed a joint motion for dismissal. Having considered
the request, the Court ordered all claims and counterclaims dismissed with and without
prejudice, respectively. Each party will bear its own attorney’s fees and costs
incurred.
See 2:13-cv-00583 for
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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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