Monday, December 21, 2009

Munck Carter, P.C., Announces Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Qualcomm Inc.

Attorneys from the Texas-based law close of Munck Carter, P.C., are announcement the filing of a federal cloister accusation adjoin San Diego-based technology behemothic Qualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM) on account of Omaha, Nebraska-based Gabriel Technologies Corporation and a aggregation subsidiary.

According to the strongly-worded lawsuit, Qualcomm and its subsidiary, SnapTrack Inc., abominably appointed admired bookish acreage that was developed as allotment of a collective development acceding with Locate Networks, Inc. Rights beneath the collective development acceding were acquired by Trace Technologies LLC, a accessory of Gabriel Technologies. The accusation has been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, San Diego Division.

The complaint accuses Qualcomm of accretion added than 90 abstracted patents by falsely claiming buying and declining to acquaint Gabriel Technologies about its abstruse activities. Norman Krasner, SnapTrack’s again vice-president of technology, aswell is called as a defendant.

“Qualcomm has a continued history of declining to account the abstruse addition and bookish acreage rights of its competitors and added companies,” says advocate William Munck, admonition for Gabriel Technologies and administrator of Munck Carter. “The courts apperceive Qualcomm’s clue record, and in this case we are gluttonous added than $1 billion in damages.”

The acknowledged technology involves cogent refinements and enhancements to what is frequently accepted as “assisted GPS.” Assisted GPS allows all-around accession technology to be chip into adaptable devices, enabling a wide-variety of wireless casework such as active directions, anecdotic abutting restaurants or banks, and tracking of assets or individuals for assurance or in emergency situations.

The accusation accurately accuses Qualcomm of misappropriating bookish acreage accompanying to thirteen (13) “core inventions” embodied in at atomic ten (10) U.S. patents and four (4) U.S. apparent applications:

U.S. Patent No. 6,377,209
U.S. Patent No. 6,583,757
U.S. Patent No. 6,661,372
U.S. Patent No. 6,799,050
U.S. Patent No. 6,861,980
U.S. Patent No. 6,895,249
U.S. Patent No. 7,254,402
U.S. Patent No. 7,289,786
U.S. Patent No. 7,319,876
U.S. Patent No. 7,421,277
Application Serial No. 10/418,799
Application Serial No. 10/792,062
Application Serial No. 10/956,409
Application Serial No. 10/961,986

According to the complaint, Krasner and SnapTrack began demography and unlawfully patenting Locate’s technology, motivated by a admiration to add to SnapTrack’s apparent portfolio in hopes of adorable an accretion by a beyond aggregation such as Qualcomm. In 2000, Qualcomm purchased SnapTrack for $1 billion in stock. The accusation states that Krasner and his wife accustomed 300,000 shares of Qualcomm stock.

”Qualcomm continuously touts its position as a arch innovator and apparent accumulator,” says advocate Munck. “In this case, Qualcomm’s declared innovations are in actuality the confiscation of our client’s technology. We accept that afterwards accepting SnapTrack, Qualcomm fabricated a business accommodation to abide the action started by Krasner and SnapTrack.”

Gabriel Technologies is allurement the cloister to acknowledge that the aggregation owns the contested technology and accompanying patents and added bookish property. The accusation includes claims adjoin SnapTrack for aperture of the collective development agreement. Also, defendants are accused of fraud, misappropriation, arbitrary antagonism and apparent infringement.

Gabriel Technologies Corporation is a about traded association focused on two rapidly growing segments of the citizenry aegis bazaar - asset tracking and concrete security. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Gabriel Technologies, LLC, a Nebraska bound accountability company, the aggregation designs, develops, articles and sells a alternation of concrete locking systems for the busline and shipment industries collectively accepted as the War-Lok™ aegis system. Security has acquired essentially in contempo years due to added risks from annexation and terrorism. With the accomplishing of the award-winning War-Lok™, Gabriel Technologies provides cost-efficient aegis measures to anticipate civic and all-around annexation and citizenry aegis issues. The Company's added wholly-owned subsidiary, Trace Technologies, LLC, a Nevada bound accountability company, was formed to advance area based casework to accredit barter to clue assets and cadre worldwide.

Munck Carter, P.C., has carved out a convenance adherent to trials, affairs and technology. With offices in Dallas and Marshall, Texas, the close offers full-service admonition in the areas of circuitous bartering litigation, bookish acreage administration and protection, accumulated affairs and securities, and application matters. Munck Carter represents audience from start-ups to Fortune 50(TM) companies. Learn added about the close at http://www.munckcarter.com

To account advocate William Munck about the Gabriel Technologies lawsuit, amuse acquaintance Mike Androvett at 214.559.4630, assessment chargeless 800.559.4534, corpuscle 214.507.5456 or e-mail mike@androvett.com.

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