NovelPoint Tracking Targets Sony Ericsson over Xperia Ion

NovelPoint Tracking (plaintiff) registered a complaint against Sony Ericsson for patent infringement in the U.S.District Court of Texas (case no. 2:12-cv-00756) on Friday, December 04, 2012.

Sony Mobile Communications manufactures electronics products for the consumer and professional markets. Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, it is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation.

The patent US6442485 involved in this is suit is currently assigned [*] to NovelPoint Tracking LLC (source: Maxval’s Assignment Database). The patent entitled Method and apparatus for an automatic vehicle location, collision notification, and synthetic voice was issued on August 27, 2012 and expires[†] by June 12, 2020.

Plaintiff says that defendant infringes the above patent by selling products including (Xperia Ion, see Fig.1) that constitute a material part of the invention mentioned in the patent-in-suit.

Fig. 1

NovelPoint Tracking has filed suit against the following companies:

Company	Case Number	Date Filed	Status
Coolpad Technologies	2:12-cv-00757	12/04/2012	Pending
Huawei Device USA	2:12-cv-00753	12/04/2012	Pending
Samsung	2:12-cv-00747	12/03/2012	Pending
LG	2:12-cv-00746	12/03/2012	Pending
Kyocera Communications	2:12-cv-00741	12/02/2012	Pending
Dell	2:12-cv-00743	12/02/2012	Pending
Lenovo	2:12-cv-00744	12/02/2012	Pending
Alcatel-Lucent USA	2:12-cv-00742	12/02/2012	Pending
Research in Motion Corporation	2:12-cv-00714	11/12/2012	Pending
Apple	2:12-cv-00713	11/12/2012	Pending
HP	2:12-cv-00716	11/12/2012	Pending
HTC	2:12-cv-00715	11/12/2012	Pending
Ford Motor Company	6:12-cv-00832	10/31/2012	Pending
Track What Maters	4:12-cv-00191	04/02/2012	Dismissed without prejudice

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[*] MaxVal offers Patent Assignment Alert service where subscribers receive email alerts when assignments relating to target applications, patents or entities of interest are recorded.

[†] Expected expiration date. Patent Term Estimator is a free web-based tool that automatically calculates patent terms and expiration dates for U.S. utility patents.

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