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21 April 2017Patents

Acacia subsidiary ramps up patent spat with Apple

Cellular Communications Equipment (CCE), a subsidiary of patent licensing company Acacia Research, has filed a patent infringement suit against Apple.

CCE filed its suit against Apple, AT&T, Verizon and others at the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas on Wednesday, April 19.

The subsidiary argued that the defendants had infringed US patent numbers 6,892,074; 8,902,770; 8,254,872; and 9,037,129.

CCE said that Apple had infringed its ‘074 patent through devices such as the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPhone 5C, iPhone 5S and iPhone 6.

The ‘770 patent was infringed via devices including the iPhone 6, and products by AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint, the suit said.

CCE argued that the ‘872 patent was infringed by Apple, Verizon and T-Mobile, and that the ‘129 patent was infringed by those three defendants plus Sprint.

CCE added that the defendants had wilfully and directly infringed its patents. It asked for damages, costs, post-judgment royalty, triple damages, pre- and post- judgment interest and a jury trial.

In September last year, WIPR reported that CCE had won a patent infringement case against Apple and was awarded $22.1 million in damages.

The jury unanimously voted that US patent number 8,055,820 was valid and infringed.

That suit was originally filed in April 2014 at the Texas court against Apple, AT&T, Verizon, Cellco Partnership, Sprint and T-Mobile.

Verizon and Sprint declined to comment.

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