Court Finds Sprint Infringed on Mobile Privacy Patents
May 21, 2008A California federal court jury recently found that wireless carrier Sprint Nextel infringed upon two patents covering location and privacy protection and owned by California company Enovsys LLC.
The Los Angeles jury returned its verdict May 16, 2008 and awarded Enovsys damages of $2.78 million. The patents in question cover a privacy system used to protect and manage the disclosure of the precise location of a user's cell phone. Enovsys had alleged that Sprint Nextel's wireless networks use technology covered by the patents in managing its location-based services (LBS).
Patent holders Mundi Fomukong and Denzil Chesney applied for the first of the patents in 1997. Enovsys is an intellectual property holding company privately held by Fomukong.
Testimony during the trial showed that Sprint Nextel is the market leader in LBS, and saw a 50 percent increase in related revenues in 2007 over the prior year, according to lawyers for Enovsys.
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