On July 16, 2014, Enterprise Systems Technologies S.a.r.l. of Luxembourg (“Enterprise”) filed a complaint requesting that the ITC commence an investigation pursuant to Section 337.
The complaint alleges that the following entities (collectively, the “Proposed Respondents”) unlawfully import into the U.S., sell for importation, and/or sell within the U.S. after importation certain communications or computing devices and components thereof that infringe one or more claims of U.S. Patent Nos. 7,454,201 (the ‘201 patent); 6,594,366 (the ‘366 patent); 6,691,302 (the ‘302 patent); and 5,870,610 (the ‘610 patent) (collectively, the “asserted patents”):
- Apple Inc. of Cupertino, California
- Cirrus Logic Inc. of Austin, Texas
- HTC Corporation of Taiwan
- HTC America, Inc. of Bellevue, Washington
- LG Electronics, Inc. of Korea
- LG Electronics U.S.A., Inc. of Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
- LG Electronics MobileComm U.S.A., Inc. of San Diego, California
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. of Korea
- Samsung Electronics America, Inc. of Ridgefield Park, New Jersey
- Samsung Telecommunications America, L.L.C. of Richardson, Texas
According to the complaint, the asserted patents relate generally to messaging, telephony, communication, computing, and network technology. More specifically, the ‘302 patent is directed to an improved interface for native operating systems to operate with programs using non-native programming languages. The ‘610 patent is directed to a system for autoconfiguration of new software of devices added to a system. The ‘366 patent describes a combined telephone and music player that share a jack. The ‘201 patent is directed to a system for sending instant messages to mobile stations of other users without knowing the user’s mobile number, based on other unique identifiers (such as a user name).