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NPE Files Sixth Suit against Smartphone Company

July 8, 2011

Visual Interactive Phone Concepts  (VIPC) [NPE] filed suit against Samsung over two patents related to over two patents related to phones with memory chips for storing transaction data. VIPC filed five separate suits against Apple, AT&T and US Cellular, Verizon, and Google in May. VIPC filed two suits before 2011-one against Virgin Mobile in 2005 and one against Leap Wireless in 2007.   The VIPC patents were subject to ex parte reexaminations filed in 2008.  Reexamination certificates affirming the validity of the two patents were issued in 2010.  The patents have a 1995 priority. 7/7, Eastern District of Michigan, 2:2011cv12945.


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