Bell Northern Research, LLC has filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission against proposed respondents BBK Electronics, BLU Products, HMD Global, Lenovo, Sonim, and TCL.
In mid-August, Bell Northern Research, LLC hit Apple and Lenovo with separate Western District of Texas lawsuits over overlapping subsets of the large portfolio of patents received from Broadcom.
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Any long-time SparkFun reader may know that we
really enjoy writing about the whacking legal entanglements we ve experienced, whether it’s cease-and-desist letters from Sparc International, tossing out 4,000 DMMs, or dealing with counterfeit ICs. Unfortunately, now it’s time we talk about patent trolls.
Since a few of my international friends looked at me funny when I mentioned it, a
patent troll is a company that is specifically set up to purchase the rights to a handful of patents and then sue anyone they feel they can get money from.
Patent trolls are Americans that are destroying American manufacturing and small business. I ve got heaps of challenges when it comes to SparkFun, but patent trolls are what keep me up at night. SparkFun knows how to manufacture in America, and we ve created tons of new open source products, but patent trolls can come out of nowhere and do real harm. It s legalized extortion. There’s a few forms of this so let’s first talk about