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To: Warren Gates who started this subject6/6/2003 8:59:41 AM
From: Dexter Lives On   of 12823
 
Sendo sues the U.K. mobile operator Orange
By Junko Yoshida -- EE Times -- June 5, 2003 (10:10 p.m. ET)

PARIS — Sendo, a Birmingham, U.K.-based mobile handset vendor, is suing the U.K. mobile operator Orange for the infringement of intellectual property rights. A company spokesperson confirmed that Sendo has begun legal proceedings in the High Court of Justice in London against Orange.
Sendo believes the Orange SPV smartphone infringes a patent granted to Sendo, relating to the design of the circuit board within the phone.

The smartphone was designed and manufactured by Taiwanese group High Tech Computers (HTC) but imported and marketed by Orange under the Orange brand name in the U.K. Orange launched the HTC-made handsets based on Microsoft operating system last October.




A spokesperson for Sendo claimed that the company has created intellectual property rights within the smartphone and mobile phone area — particularly in a layout of the board for smartphones. Such a hardware design is "critical to miniaturize smartphone handsets," she explained.

Separately, Sendo is already involved in a legal battle against Microsoft Corp., its former partner, for alleged misuse of proprietary information used in its mobile handsets.

Although this suit was originally filed in a federal court in Texas, the venue has now moved to Seattle, WA and its first hearing will begin early July. Sendo believes that some of the features it had introduced for the smartphone Sendo was developing in conjunction with Microsoft have been adopted in other handsets, which Microsoft has been working on with other partners.

The two cases — the case against Orange and the case against Microsoft — are separate, said the Sendo spokesperson, but "both involve HTC."

eetimes.com
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