West Perth-based intellectual property company ipernica Ltd has launched a second legal case against Sweden's Ericsson Inc, with a trial in the United States set for 2010.
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West Perth-based intellectual property company ipernica Ltd has launched a second legal case against Sweden's Ericsson Inc, with a trial in the United States set for 2010.
West Perth-based intellectual property company ipernica Ltd has launched a second legal case against Sweden's Ericsson Inc, with a trial in the United States set for 2010.
ipernica is alleging that Ericsson and a number of other defendants have been using the Statistical Mutliplexing technology, patented to ipernica, without permission.
The Stat Mux technology covers a widely used methodology for ensuring that telecommunications switches and routers operate efficiently, in circumstances where the capacity of the switches or routers is threatened by an overflow of traffic.
ipernica is understood to be seeking damages and or an injunction to stop the defendants from infringing the patent.
A trial will be held during November in 2010, while a 'markman' hearing will take place on July 14 2010.
ipernica explained that a markman hearing is a pre-trial hearing at which a judge decides how the disputed claims of an asserted patent are to be interpreted.
The case is separate to a legal stoush with Ericsson earlier this year where the Swedish company agreed to settle in the Federal Court of Australia with a pay out of $30 million cash to ipernica.
ipernica, formerly QPSX Ltd, alleged Ericsson had not paid royalties on its use of the company's asynchronous transfer mode technology (ATM) and segmentation and reassembly licence.
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