SmartPhone Technologies [NPE] filed suit against Dell, alleging that Dell’s Venue smartphones infringe ten patents related to various mobile device technologies.  SmartPhone Technologies, a subsidiary of Acacia Research, has filed five prior suits since March 2010 against AT&T, Apple, Exedea, HTC, Insight Enterprises, Kyocera, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Pantech, RIM, Samsung, Sanyo, Sony Ericsson, and T-Mobile.  According to the complaint, SmartPhone is the exclusive licensee of the patents-in-suit, which originated with Palm.  In January 2012, Acacia announced that SmartPhone entered into a license agreement with Amazon.  3/14, Eastern District of Texas, 6:2012cv00154.