Sipco [NPE] filed suit against Control4 over three patents related to wireless home automation, 2/28, 1:2011cv00612. Cisco and Control4 announced a strategic partnership on February 15. SIPCO has filed nine prior suits against approximately 40 defendants. The inventor of the patents and principal at SIPCO, T. David Petite, is the founder of the Native American Inventors Association and a member of the Professional Awards Selection Committee of the American Indian Science Engineering Society.