1- in the UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT for the DISTRICT of KANSAS HIGH POINT SARL, ) ) Plaintiff and Counterclaim-Defendant
Case 2:09-cv-02269-CM-TJJ Document 1138 Filed 12/11/14 Page 1 of 36 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF KANSAS HIGH POINT SARL, ) ) Plaintiff and Counterclaim-Defendant, ) ) v. ) Case No. 09-2269-CM ) SPRINT NEXTEL CORPORATION, et al., ) ) Defendants and Counterclaimants. ) ) __________________________________________) MEMORANDUM AND ORDER Plaintiff High Point Sarl (“High Point”) alleges that defendants Sprint Nextel Corporation; Sprint Spectrum L.P.; Sprintcom, Inc.; Sprint Communications Company L.P.; Sprint Solutions, Inc.; APA.C PCS, LLC; APC Realty and Equipment Company, LLC; and STC Two LLC (collectively “Sprint”) infringe four United States Patents1 (the “patents” or “Patents-in-Suit”). The patents disclose methods for designing and implementing cellular telephone network infrastructure equipment used in receiving and transmitting voice call traffic. Sprint purchased the network equipment at issue from Lucent Technologies Inc. (“Lucent”). Through a series of corporate mergers in 2006 and 2008, Lucent became Alcatel-Lucent USA, Inc. (“ALU-USA”). ALU-USA has intervened in this lawsuit. Sprint filed a Motion for Summary Judgment of Invalidity of All Asserted Patent Claims Due to Nonjoinder of True Inventor (Doc. 900) (“Inventorship Motion”) 2 and a Motion for Summary Judgment on Estoppel and Laches (Doc. 1063) (“Estoppel and Laches Motion”). 3 ALU-USA filed a Motion for Summary Judgment on License and Exhaustion (Doc. 1048) (“License and Exhaustion 1 The asserted patents include: U.S. Patent No. 5,195,090 (“the ’090 Patent”); U.S. Patent No. 5,305,308 (“the ’308 Patent”); U.S. Patent No. 5,184,347 (“the ’347 Patent”); and U.S.
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