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Cisco Added to Inventor Dupray’s Location Tracking Campaign
In July, Dennis J. Dupray added two cases against Microsoft to the campaign, begun in 2011, litigating patents on which he is a named inventor. Dupray has filed suits in the campaign through a Colorado entity, TracBeam LLC, and a Florida entity, FineTrak, LLC, the former of which has now filed another new case, this one against Cisco (6:17-cv-00525). The complaint asserts five patents from the 19-member Dupray family, all broadly related to wireless location systems, targeting Cisco’s “numerous enterprise and commercial platforms, products, and services that determine, track, manage, report, use, and provide access to and analytics concerning the location of devices, vehicles, assets, and people”.
September 17, 2017
Inventor’s Location Tracking Campaign One-Twos Microsoft, Through TracBeam and FineTrak
Dennis J. Dupray is a named inventor on each member of a 19-patent family broadly related to wireless location systems. In August 1995, Dupray formed TracBeam LLC in Colorado, assigning some of his patent assets to that entity and launching a litigation campaign over some of them in 2011. TracBeam has kept that campaign alive by filing a new case against Microsoft (6:17-cv-00426), targeting a host of Microsoft applications and services with five Dupray patents (7,274,332; 7,298,327; 7,525,484; 7,764,231; 9,060,341). On the same day, FineTrak, LLC, an entity that Dupray created in Florida in July 2015, kicked off another campaign, accusing the same set of Microsoft (6:17-cv-00427) products, but over a different Dupray patent (8,994,591). Dupray has assigned others of his patents to a third entity, Mobile Maven LLC, which has yet to file suit.
July 25, 2017
Mobile Providers Still a Target for TracBeam’s Geolocation Campaign
TracBeam’s first suits in 2014 target Apple and T-Mobile. Four patents are asserted in the suits, including two patents that have not been previously asserted (7298327, 7525484, 7764231, 8032153). The patents-in-suit relate to wireless geolocation using multiple location estimators. Location services available on defendants’ mobile devices and on T-Mobile’s service network are at issue in the suits. TracBeam developed the patents-in-suit, and all four have a priority date in 1996. It began its litigation in 2011, suing a variety of mobile device companies and service providers, including AT&T, Google, Sprint, and Verizon. The current suits are the first since that initial filing. 8/8, Eastern District of Texas, 6:14cv00678, 6:14cv00680
August 15, 2014
TracBeam, L.L.C. v. AT&T Inc. et al
TracBeam [NPE] filed suit against AT&T over two patents related to wireless mobile location technologies 2/25, 6:2011cv00096. This is the first suit filed by TracBeam (formerly Intellabs).
March 15, 2011