U.S. hotels and restaurants for WLAN patent infringement sued

U.S. hotels and restaurants for WLAN patent infringement sued

The US-IP licensing company innovations has cited several large hotel and store chains in the country due to alleged violations of patents on wireless Internet transmissions in court. As early as spring sued the company to offer restaurants and coffee shops such as Caribou Coffee, Cosi and Panera Bread, the Wi-Fi hotspots. Now stand, the hotel operators such as Hyatt, Marriott, Ramada Inn, Best Western, Super 8 and Travelodge targeted by innovation, says the "Patent Examiner" at UC Berkeley. The new wave of five complaints directed against a total of more than 220 individual accommodation facilities in the U.S. state of Illinois.

The plaintiff claims to hold 31 patents relating to basic WLAN implementations. The court, according to the entries based on message 17 of this intellectual property, which had originally gone for inventions between 1990 and the beginning of the new millennium, the semiconductor manufacturer Broadcom. Since late February, the patents were in the hands of the licensing company, which launched shortly after first complaints. Legal representatives of the affected now hotel facilities were surprised about the complaints, where innovation requires relatively low compensation and royalties amounting to several thousand U.S. dollars: is wireless an industry standard and who appropriate hotspots to make available, assume that patent issues have been clarified in advance be.

In general, litigation initiatives addressed in the dispute over intellectual property rights against the manufacturers of products and against the supplier. Matthew represents the law firm of McAndrews Niro, Haller & Niro, the innovations, referred to his client's plan to license its patent portfolio as well. These include anyone who is offering wireless network transmissions. Households with wireless routers should at least at this stage of the "systematic campaign" INNOVATION but do not expect complaints. Motorola and Cisco Systems Solutions have already replied to the first legal action with a counterclaim. You want to establish the fact that their wireless-enabled products do not violate patents held by the licensing company. They should also run into the field intellectual property rights are declared null and void.