Procomm International Pte. Ltd. has sued Verizon and Ericsson for patent infringement in the U.S. District Court of Eastern Texas. Based in Singapore, Procomm said it is the sole owner of the patents in question. Its lawsuit claims that Verizon and Ericsson infringed its patents in the planning, designing, developing, testing, operating, and maintaining of Verizon’s 5G network.
“Much of the equipment installed in the Verizon Networks—especially the 5G Verizon Networks — which incorporates infringing technology was acquired from its longtime partner Ericsson, which designs, manufactures, imports, and sells 5G and other telecommunications equipment, including Ericsson’s Macro, Massive MIMO, Street Macro and Small Cell products,” the complaint reads.
In particular, Procomm asserts that its patent governing the Distributed Remote Base Station System, has been infringed and continues to be infringed. Other patents that it claims have been infringed and continue to be infringed are titled: Small Signal Threshold and Proportional Gain Distributed Digital Communications; System and Method for Tuning Multicavity Filters, Panel Antenna Having Sealed Radio Enclosure; Systems and Methods for Venturi Fan-Assisted Cooling.
The patents cover inventions developed by Andrew LLC, ADC Telecommunications, Inc., and CommScope, Inc. Subsequently, the patents had been acquired by and assigned to Procomm.
By J. Sharpe Smith, Inside Towers Technology Editor
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