Steelhead Licensing Sues More Mobile Phone Makers and Wireless Services Providers

  • January 17, 2013

Steelhead Licensing filed six separate suits against AcerAmazonAsustekDellAmerica Movil (and its subsidiaries PRTC and TELPRI), and Infosonics alleging that the defendants’ tablets and mobile phones infringe a patent related to a process for determining the manner in which a handover from one cell to another is performed in a mobile environment (5,678,185). Last week, Steelhead Licensing asserted the same patent in 15 suits against other handset makers and wireless network operators, including AppleAT&TDeusche TelekomHTCKyoceraLG ElectronicsMetroPCSMotorola MobilityNEC Casio MobilePantechRIMSonySprint NextelVerizon, and ZTE.  The patent-in-suit originated with British Telecommunications and was assigned to Steelhead Licensing by FTE Exchange in December 2012.  RPX reviewed the patent-in-suit as an open market opportunity (BT Wireless – OMA) in June 2012.  1/11, District of Delaware, 1:2013-cv-00076; 1:2013-cv-00077; 1:2013-cv-00078; 1:2013-cv-00079; 1/14, District of Puerto Rico, 3:2013-cv-01030; 3:2013-cv-01031.


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