Andrea Electronics Corporation

Andrea Electronics Corporation (AEC) has rebooted its sole litigation campaign, filing a district court case against Apple (2:16-cv-5220), another against Samsung (2:16-cv-5217), and a complaint before the International Trade Commission (ITC) against both (337-TA-1026). All three new complaints assert identified claims from three patents (6,049,607; 6,363,345; 6,377,637) generally related to interference cancelling and noise reduction. At issue in this campaign are audio processing hardware and software in a host of computing and related products, including laptops, tablets, smartphones, headsets, and wearables.

Andrea Electronics Corporation (AEC) continues its campaign with a new round of lawsuits. The entity asserts a group of five patents (5,825,898; 6,049,607; 6,363,345; 6,377,637; 6,483,923), and filed suit against Acer (2:15-cv-00210), ASUS (2:15-cv-00214), Dell (2:15-cv-00209), HP (2:15-cv-00208), Lenovo (2:15-cv-00212), Realtek Semiconductor (2:15-cv-00215), and Toshiba (2:15-cv-00211). It previously sued Acer, Lenovo, and Toshiba in July 2014, asserting four of the five patents-in-suit (all but the ‘637 patent). Those cases are still open, and the new suits against those defendants assert only the ‘637 patent, while the other recent suits assert all five patents. The patents-in-suit relate to digital signal interference cancelling, and the suits accuse defendants’ personal computer products of infringement.

Acer (2:14-cv-04488), Lenovo (2:14-cv-04489), and Toshiba (2:14-cv-04492) are the first targets in Andrea Electronics Corporation’s (AEC’s) patent litigation campaign that asserts a group of four patents (5,825,898; 6,049,607; 6,363,345; 6,483,923). The patents-in-suit relate to digital signal interference cancelling, and the suits accuse defendants’ personal computer products of infringement. The asserted patents were developed by Lamar Signal Processing and acquired by AEC in 2000.