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Third-Party Funded Fendgo Hits Samsung over Smartphone SOS Tools

May 26, 2023

Inventor-controlled Fendgo LLC, with apparent backing by a litigation funder, has filed its first litigation with a suit against Samsung (2:23-cv-00221) in the Eastern District of Texas. The asserted patent, described in the complaint as “relating to the integration of safety features with mobile devices”, generally relates to a mobile device with a “panic button” for transmitting data in emergencies. Samsung is targeted over the provision of Galaxy-series smartphones that support the Samsung SOS tool, an emergency communications service for sharing “image data, audio data, location data and caller information” to emergency contacts.


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