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Daniel Perez’s Fleet Tracking Campaign Snags Four More Defendants
The fleet tracking campaign of Orthosie Systems, LLC, a Texas-based NPE controlled by Daniel F. Perez, has expanded to include four additional defendants: Applus Technologies (4:17-cv-00080), Fortive (4:17-cv-00109), Mix Telematics (4:17-cv-00111), and US Fleet Tracking (4:17-cv-00095). The new complaints assert the same single patent (7,430,471) at issue in the other cases in the campaign, which now number close to three dozen. The ‘471 patent generally relates to vehicle monitoring, and the accused products are the defendants’ hardware and software systems that use GPS to track the locations of vehicles and other assets.
February 17, 2017
Orthosie Systems Hits a Dozen More Defendants in Fleet Tracking Campaign
Orthosie Systems, LLC, a Texas-based NPE controlled by Daniel F. Perez, added a round of cases to its fleet tracking campaign on the last day of 2016, accusing over a dozen companies—DPL Telematics, Fleet Daddy, iTrack America, Kore Wireless Group, M&G Fleet Solutions, Merchants Fleet Management, Pedigree Technologies, Quartix, RareStep, Sky Patrol, Spireon, Synovia Solutions, Track Star, and Track What Matters—in separate complaints of infringing a single patent (7,430,471). The ‘471 patent generally relates to vehicle monitoring, and the accused products are the defendants’ hardware and software systems for tracking the locations of vehicles using GPS. This round of cases follows nearly a dozen filed against other fleet tracking companies in November and earlier in December.
December 29, 2016
Orthosie Systems Adds Redtail Telematics to Vehicle Tracking and Security Campaign
Orthosie Systems, LLC, a Texas-based NPE controlled by Daniel F. Perez, has filed a single complaint against Redtail Telematics (4:16-cv-00927), its first new filings since reviving its campaign last month. Similar to those November cases, which hit Actsoft (4:16-cv-00873), Blue Tree Systems (4:16-cv-00878), GPS Insight (4:16-cv-00841), iTRAK (4:16-cv-00853), Lytx (4:16-cv-00855), Omnitracs (4:16-cv-00844), Orion Fleet Intelligence (4:16-cv-00865), Vestigo (4:16-cv-00867), and Zonar Systems (4:16-cv-00872), Orthosie accuses Redtail of infringing a single vehicle monitoring patent (7,430,471) by providing hardware and software systems for tracking the locations of vehicles using GPS.
December 9, 2016
Orthosie Systems Revives Vehicle Tracking and Security Campaign with Six New Suits
Orthosie Systems, LLC, a Texas-based NPE controlled by Daniel F. Perez, has filed its first new litigation since October 2015. In six separate complaints, the entity has accused GPS Insight (4:16-cv-00841), iTRAK (4:16-cv-00853), Lytx (4:16-cv-00855), Omnitracs (4:16-cv-00844), Orion Fleet Intelligence (4:16-cv-00865), and Vestigo (4:16-cv-00867) of infringing a single vehicle monitoring patent (7,430,471) through the provision of hardware and software systems for tracking the locations of vehicles and other mobile assets using GPS.
November 8, 2016
Daniel Perez’s New NPE Keeps a Close Watch on Vehicle Monitoring and Disabling Devices
Orthosie Systems, LLC, a new NPE controlled by Daniel F. Perez, launched its first litigation campaign to date. In four separate complaints, Orthosie accuses a group of fleet management software providers (Digital Communication Technologies, Fleetmatics, Geotab, and NexTraq) of infringing a vehicle monitoring patent (7,430,471). In a fifth complaint, against a maker of a starter interrupt device (Pay Technologies), Orthosie asserts the ’471 patent as well two additional patents, which generally relate to locating and disabling a vehicle (6,717,527; 7,266,507).
October 29, 2015