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Monday, December 21, 2009

Samsung, T-Mobile, Other Major Companies Sued Over Sales of Radiation-Reducing Cell Phones

A Texas aggregation has filed a federal apparent contravention accusation adjoin Samsung, T-Mobile and added above corpuscle buzz manufacturers, account providers and retailers based on claims that these companies are affairs radiation-reducing corpuscle phones after paying the inventors who authority the apparent on the accepted technology.

The Dallas action close of Reyes Bartolomei Browne represents Tyler, Texas-based DownUnder Wireless, LLC, adjoin 21 companies, including architect Samsung; account providers including AT&T, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile and Verizon; and retailers including Amazon.com, Best Buy, Target, Wal-Mart and others.

DownUnder filed clothing adjoin a accumulation of corpuscle buzz manufacturers beforehand this year, including HTC, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Sharp and Sony Ericsson.

According to the lawsuits, DownUnder invented a architecture that calls for corpuscle buzz antennas to be placed in the abject of the buzz rather than the acceptable adjustment in the earpiece abreast the user’s head. DownUnder’s design, which was awarded U.S. Patent No. 6,741,215, aswell angles the antenna abroad from the user. Both appearance plan calm to abate the aggregate of potentially adverse radiation that could be transmitted into an individual’s brain.

Before the end of the year, the World Health Organization (WHO) is accepted to broadcast the after-effects of a decade-long analysis into links amid corpuscle buzz radiation and academician cancer. Published letters say the WHO abstraction will appearance a “significantly added risk” of some academician tumors accompanying to abiding acceptance of adaptable phones.

“As time goes on, humans are traveling to focus on these kinds of studies and they’re traveling to be anxious about this radiation as a abeyant hazard,” says advocate Angel Reyes III, who represents DownUnder. “And that agency the corporations application this architecture – our client’s architecture – angle to accomplish a acceptable accord of money. That’s fine, but the law requires that they aboriginal pay the applicable apparent holder, which is DownUnder.”

Among the phones listed in the accusation as break application DownUnder’s patented technology are the LG Rhythm, Motorola RAZR, Nokia Twist, Propel Pro, Samsung Slash and Sharp Sidekick LX 2009.

“One of the a lot of accepted abstracts of electromagnetic radiation is the SAR, or specific assimilation rate,” says Mr. Reyes. “The wireless accessories that use the technology declared in the ’215 apparent are able of operating at actual low SAR levels after a accident of arresting quality. Therefore, if you’re anxious about cancer, these phones are added desirable.”

Reyes Bartolomei Browne is a Dallas-based balloon law close that handles business action affairs and life-altering claimed abrasion cases. More advice is accessible at http://www.reyeslaw.com.

For added advice on the cases filed by DownUnder Wireless, amuse acquaintance Mark Annick at 800-559-4534, or mark@androvett.com.