BERWYN, Pa.-Wireless location technology developer TruePosition Inc. said it is moving forward with its lawsuit against Andrew Corp., alleging the company’s products infringe on its patents for dealing with the location of cell phones using the wireless network control channel. TruePosition’s lawsuit focuses on Andrew’s international activities, and seeks damages and a permanent injunction prohibiting further infringement, the company said.
Andrew pointed out that the lawsuit was filed last October. “This lawsuit is old news and the only reason we can see why they would re-announce six months after this already was made public is to attempt to sway customers who have recently chosen our Geometrix solutions in the international marketplace,” responded Rick Aspan, spokesman for Andrew. “We feel we are on very solid ground and are defending ourselves vigorously.”
In late February, Andrew announced that it won a strategic multi-year international geolocation system contract with a tier-one Middle Eastern operator. The company disclosed that the contract was worth more than $10 million in its first phase of deployments of Andrew’s Geometrix uplink time difference of arrival system, which is a network-based application for determining a mobile device’s position.
A TruePosition representative said the company decided to announce the lawsuit again because of TruePosition’s desire to let companies in the Middle East know that the lawsuit was filed.
In 2004, Andrew settled a separate lawsuit with TruePosition for allegedly infringing on different patents. In that case, Andrew agreed to pay TruePosition $35 million and to provide warrants to purchase one million shares of Andrew’s common stock.
