BlackBerry Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit against Avaya

[ThePointblank]

The sources:

 

CrackBerry.com:

http://crackberry.com/blackberry-files-patent-infringement-lawsuit-against-avaya-texas

 

IAM-Media:

http://www.iam-media.com/blog/Detail.aspx?g=d3534e78-a0f5-484b-908e-a09ca085f046

 

The brief summary:

 

BlackBerry is filing suit against Avaya over a series of patents related to various mobile communications technologies. This suit was filed roughly a week ago on July 27th in a Texas court. In the complaint, BlackBerry alleges that it notified Avaya that it was violating a number of BlackBerry patents in December 2015, and it can be surmised that since there was no communications since then, the licensing negotiations have broken down, or Blackberry feels a suit is needed to get Avaya to talk seriously. The complaint is not a brief complaint; it is well over 100 pages long and is incredibly detailed, and can be read here:

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8wvbtwDKpEHSk9BMGNCcW1SQUk/view

 

The patents involved are 9143801, 8964849, 8116739, 8886212, 8688439, 7440561, 8554218 and 7372961, which were originally filed with the US Patent Office between 1998 and 2011. The patents are described as follows:

 

9143801: Significance map encoding and decoding using partition selection (filed in 2011)

https://www.google.com/patents/US9143801

 

8964849: Multi-level significance maps for encoding and decoding (filed in 2011)

https://www.google.com/patents/US8964849

 

8116739: Method and apparatus for dynamic session placeholder for message collection user interface (filed in 2005)

https://www.google.com/patents/US8116739

 

8886212: Mobile tracking (filed in 2010)

https://www.google.com/patents/US8886212

 

7440561: Method and apparatus for selectively establishing communication with one of plural devices associated with a single telephone number (filed in 1999)

https://www.google.com/patents/US7440561

 

8554218: Client device method and apparatus for routing a call (filed in 2006)

https://www.google.com/patents/US8554218

 

7372961:  Method of public key generation (filed in 2000)

https://www.google.com/patents/US7372961

 

This follows as part of a major push by BlackBerry to monetize its vast IP holdings; both articles noted that BlackBerry has struck deals with companies like Cisco, Canon, and International Game Technology regarding the licensing and the paying of royalties for BlackBerry's patents, and may be a sign by BlackBerry to others that it is negotiating with regarding licensing of its IP's to take negotiations seriously otherwise a lawsuit can emerge.

 

 

[c00face]

What's funny about all of this is... I don't even care.

I still use a flip phone.

[Briggsy]

business Professor: "In business you sometimes get caught in quicksand and need to get out. How do you get out of quicksand?"

 

Student: "Umm, by being as still as possible and leaning back to make your upper body act as a buoyant obj..."

 

Professor: "Wrong! you get everyone who's nearby to reach for you, then you pull everyone in and climb out by stepping on their bodies!"

[CaliJL]

Of course it's in TEXAS, patent trolls.

[Syntaxvgm]

On 8/2/2016 at 10:39 PM, ThePointblank said:

...in a Texas court. ...

 

That's all I need to know.