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Intellectual Property Analysis of Imperium (IP) Holdings, Inc. v. Apple Inc. et. al.

On March 18, 2011, Imperium (IP) Holdings filed a lawsuit in the Eastern District of Texas accusing seven companies of infringing five of its patents. Imperium claims that LG, Kyocera, Nokia, Motorola Mobility, Apple, Sony and RIM have all committed infringement by manufacturing, selling or importing cell phones. The asserted patents all relate to image sensors and, in particular, photodiodes. Each of the five patents came to ESS Technology, Inc. as part of its 2003 acquisition of Pictos Technologies, Inc. from Conexant Systems, Inc.

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Intellectual Property Analysis of NetAirius Technologies Wireless Handset Communication System U.S. Pat. No. 7,103,380

NetAirus Technologies is an entity owned by Richard J. Ditzik. As of May 2010, according to the electronic output of the USPTO’s Public PAIR system reports on patent assignment, Richard J. Ditzik holds 13 granted U.S. patents, one of which describes a wireless handset communication system which has multimedia capabilities. The claims of this patent are broad and extend across mobile telephone, computer, and PDA innovation spaces.

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Intellectual Property Analysis of Nokia's Mobile Device Antenna Patent Portfolio referenced in Nokia Corporation v. Apple Inc.

In its recent patent lawsuit with Apple, Nokia claims that Apple’s iPad™ and iPhone™ products infringe five of its patents, four of which concern antenna arrangements and configurations.

M•CAM analytics have identified other documents in the innovation space that may contain critical elements of enabling technologies that predate key aspects of the innovations described in the claims of the Nokia portfolio. These documents include innovations both precedent to and concurrent with the asserted Nokia patents.

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Intellectual Property Analysis of DownUnder Wireless LLC’s Inverted Safety Antenna Patent referenced in DownUnder Wireless, LLC v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc. et al.

The November 20, 2009 lawsuit with Samsung Electronics America, Inc., Sprint Nextel Corp., Walmart Stores Inc., and others, was the most recent in a string of litigation DownUnder Wireless, LLC had filed against cell phone manufacturers, providers and retailers. On May 27, 2010, nearly 20 of the defendants filed a joint motion to dismiss the suit after agreeing to cooperate with DownUnder Wireless, presumably paying a licensing fee in the process.

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