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Hilco’s Bell Northern Research Hits T-Mobile over Smartphones

October 20, 2023

Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile) (4:23-cv-00910) is the latest defendant to be added to the sole litigation campaign of Bell Northern Research, LLC (BNR), which launched in August 2018 with suits against Huawei, Kyocera, Coolpad Group (Coolpad Technologies, Yulong Computer), and ZTE. The Hilco Inc. (d/b/a Hilco Global) plaintiff asserts 11 patents, each acquired from Broadcom, the set broadly directed to battery conservation, mobile alarms, and/or wireless communications. T-Mobile is accused of infringement through the provision of a wide array of smartphones, with features ranging from the incorporation of proximity sensors to compliance with various networking standards at issue.


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