Visual Interactive Phone Concepts [NPE] filed suit against United States Cellular over two patents related to phones with memory chips for storing transaction data.  This case is a transfer from the Eastern District of Michigan.  Since 2005, VIPC has filed suit nine other times over the same two patents against defendants including AT&T, Apple, and Google.  Both of VIPC’s patents survived ex parte reexaminations in 2010.  8/3, Northern District of Illinois, 1:2011cv05289.