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Four U.S. Carriers Sued over Patent Infringement

By on March 9, 2008

T – Mobile, U.S. Cellular, Virgin Mobile USA and Helio have been sued by Intellect Wireless Inc. for patent infringement. The lawsuit has been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

The Texas based company, Intellect Wireless, has accused the companies for infringing wireless image messaging patents. The three patents in question are “Picture Phone with Caller ID” “Method and Apparatus for Improved Paging Receiver and System” which were issued in 2007. The founder of Intellect Wireless, Daniel Henderson, is the sole inventor of the patents at hand.  

Via RCR Wireless

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5 responses to “Four U.S. Carriers Sued over Patent Infringement”

  1. brandon smith
    brandon smith March 9, 2008 at 8:23 pm |

    Anyone find it interesting that they didn’t bother to sue any of the top three wireless companies? Maybe they chose those with smaller legal teams hoping they would rather settle than go to court. Any thoughts?

  2. Scot Cerullo
    Scot Cerullo March 9, 2008 at 8:31 pm |

    Excellent and insightful point, Brandon, and I bet you’re right!

  3. Fahad Khan
    Fahad Khan March 9, 2008 at 9:00 pm |

    I know. That’s what I thought as well when I came across the news.

  4. blaze416
    blaze416 March 10, 2008 at 7:44 am |

    I bet that they wont hold up at all. I didn’t think that you could patent publicly availiable knowlage. Like “Picture phone with caller ID.” I bet they are just seeing how this works out with the smaller carriers just to see if they have a shot at hitting the big 4.

  5. Mike Dano
    Mike Dano March 10, 2008 at 8:15 am |

    This post looks a lot like this story from RCR Wireless News:
    http://www.rcrnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080305/FREE/223823901
    But seems to be posted without attribution.