A Carrier Is Not A Country

Addressing a lower court's claim construction and summary judgment of non-infringement, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found that more limited claim construction found a lower court was correct and sustained the summary judgment ruling. Technology Patents LLC v. T-Mobile (UK) LTD., Case No. 11-1581 (Fed. Cir., Oct. 17, 2012) (Bryson, J.).

Plaintiff Technology Patents LLC (TPL) filed suit against more than 100 defendants, generally falling into three categories: domestic carriers (and handset companies), software providers, and foreign carriers. TPL asserted that defendants infringed its patent directed to a global paging system utilizing a land-based packet-switched digital data network. The global paging system included a feature for permitting users to remotely designate countries in which they are expected to be located. The district court granted summary judgment of non-infringement in favor of the domestic carriers and the software providers