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4 March 2019Patents

Bosch and Honeywell sued over wireless motion sensors

Pinek IP, a patent-holding company based in Texas, is suing engineering firms  Bosch Security Systems and  Honeywell International for infringing a wireless motion detector patent.

The suits, filed separately in the US District Court for the District of Delaware on Thursday, February 28, allege that the companies infringed a patent formerly owned by  Siemens (US number 7,233,256).

The patent, entitled “a system and method for receiving a signal to trigger a pyroelectric activation system”, covers an activation system containing a remotely triggerable circuit.

Pinek is an affiliate of  IP Edge, which acquired US patents from Siemens in October 2018,  according to patent risk managing company RPX.

In the complaints, Pinek accused both companies of infringing the patent by selling their own wireless motion sensors.

The company said that both the “Honeywell 5898 wireless X-band dual tec motion detector” and the “Radion TriTech ZB wireless motion detector” infringed its IP.

Pinek alleged that “numerous other devices that infringe the claims of the [‘256 patent] have been made, used, sold, imported, and offered for sale” by Bosch and Honeywell.

Bosch Security Systems is a New York-based subsidiary of German electronics multinational Robert Bosch.

Honeywell, headquartered in New Jersey, is an engineering company active in the consumer products and aerospace sectors.

Pinek is seeking damages and attorneys’ costs in both complaints.

WIPR has contacted representatives of Pinek IP, Bosch and Honeywell for comment.

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