lawsuit

On February 22, 2013, Celgard, LLC filed a patent infringement claim against Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. The complaint accuses Sumitomo of infringing Celgard’s U.S. Pat. No. 6,432,586 (hereafter ‘586), which covers a separator technology for use in lithium ion batteries. Sumitimo is accused of willful infringement of the ‘586 patent particularly through its sale of separators to Panasonic for use in the Toughbook line mobile computers.

While this just may be the next reel in the on-going saga of Kodak’s celluloid dream of destiny initiated when management shunned digital imaging in favor of believing that film would die a much slower death than the market had ordained, this movie is getting more unfocused each day. And to think that it’s all playing out under the cataract-clouded eyes of the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice – neither of whom could actually review this transaction for its anti-competitive effects EVEN IF the material identities of the participants were disclosed.

While this just may be the next reel in the on-going saga of Kodak’s celluloid dream of destiny

initiated when management shunned digital imaging in favor of believing that film would die a

much slower death than the market had ordained, this movie is getting more unfocussed each day.

And to think that it’s all playing out under the cataract-clouded eyes of the Federal Trade

Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice – neither of whom could actually review this

transaction for its anti-competitive effects EVEN IF the material identities of the participants

In May of 1993, Martin Kelly Jones filed his first patents on vehicle tracking systems and established the early priority dates of many of his modern-day patents. Since that time, Melvino Technologies Limited (MTL), the company that apparently owns Martin Kelly Jones’ patents, and ArrivalStar S.A., a company that licenses those patents, have deployed a classic non-operating entity business model.

On November 9th 2010, Personal Voice Freedom (PVF) filed an infringment suit against YMAX Corp. as well as its subsidiaries magicJack LP and TigerJet Network Inc. In an effort to fight off the case, magicJack filed for a reexamination of the asserted patent, US 7,336,654 with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in November of 2011. The patent was reissued with amended claims and magicJack has subsequently appeared to enter a settlement agreement with PVF.