Prism Technologies [NPE] filed five separate suits against AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, United States Cellular, and Verizon, alleging that the defendants’ voice and data plans infringe two patents related to using a server and database system to control access to protected computer resources.  Prism Technologies has filed five prior suits since April 2005 against over 15 defendants including Adobe, McAfee, Microsoft, PayPal, RIM, and Symantec.  The patents-in-suit originated with Prism Resources and were assigned to Prism Technologies in July 2004.  One of the patents-in-suit has survived reexamination twice and received reexamination certificates in August 2010 and June 2011.  4/4, District of Nebraska, no judge yet assigned, 8:2012cv00122; 8:2012cv00123; 8:2012cv00124; 8:2012cv00125; 8:2012cv00126.