Coretek Licensing LLC v. Babylon, LLC

On October 20, 2022, Coretek Licensing LLC (“Coretek” or “Plaintiff”), represented by Andrew S. Curfman of Sand, Sebolt & Wernow Co., LPA, filed an intellectual property lawsuit against Babylon, LLC (“Defendant”), seeking declaratory and injunctive relief with damages for alleged patent infringement. This case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, with Judge Lee Yeakel presiding.

The plaintiff filed this action for the alleged infringement of U.S. patent Nos. 8,861,512 (“the ‘512 Patent”), 9,173,154 (“the ‘154 Patent”), 9,369,575 (“the ‘575 Patent”), and 9,591,551 (“the ‘551 Patent”) (collectively, the “Patents-in-Suit”).

In the complaint, the plaintiff alleged, “Defendant commercializes, inter alia, methods that perform all the steps recited in at least one claim of the ‘512 Patent. More particularly, Defendant commercializes, inter alia, methods, systems, and/or servers that perform all the steps recited in Claims 1, 4, 5, 8, 12, 23, and/or 24 of the ‘512 Patent. Specifically, Defendant makes, uses, sells, offers for sale, or imports a method, system, and/or server that enables a wireless device to initiate a network connection without using a network operator's home location register that encompasses that which is covered by Claims 1, 4, 5, 8, 12, 23, and/or 24 of the ‘512 Patent.”

The plaintiff then alleged, “Defendant commercializes, inter alia, methods, systems, servers, and/or computer products that perform all the steps recited in at least one claim of the ‘154 Patent. More particularly, Defendant commercializes, inter alia, methods that perform all the steps recited in Claims 1, 3, 4, 7, 11, 22, 23, and/or 24 of the ‘154 Patent. Specifically, Defendant makes, uses, sells, offers for sale, or imports a method, system, server, and/or computer product that enables a wireless device to initiate a network connection without using a network operator's home location register that encompasses that which is covered by Claims 1, 3, 4, 7, 11, 22, 23, and/or 24 of the ‘154 Patent.”

The plaintiff further alleged, “Defendant commercializes, inter alia, systems that perform all the steps recited in at least one claim of the ‘575 Patent. More particularly, Defendant commercializes, inter alia, methods that perform all the steps recited in Claim 1 of the ‘575 Patent. Specifically, Defendant makes, uses, sells, offers for sale, or imports a system that detects or determines any given VoIP (Voice over internet protocol) location of any VoIP enabled wireless device registered to the system that encompasses that which is covered by Claim 1 of the ‘575 Patent.”

The plaintiff also alleged, “Defendant commercializes, inter alia, methods, systems, servers, and/or computer products that perform all the steps recited in at least one claim of the ‘551 Patent. More particularly, Defendant commercializes, inter alia, methods that perform all the steps recited in Claims 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 22, 23, and/or 24 of the ‘551 Patent. Specifically, Defendant makes, uses, sells, offers for sale, or imports a method, system, server, and/or computer product that enables a wireless device to initiate a network connection without using a network operator's home location register that encompasses that which is covered by Claims 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 22, 23, and/or 24 of the ‘551 Patent.”

Plaintiff additionally alleged, “Defendant has committed these acts of infringement without license or authorization.”

Plaintiff presented four claims for relief from alleged infringement of the patents-in-suit. 

In the prayer for relief, the plaintiff requested declaratory and injunctive relief along with an award of damages, including compensatory and enhanced damages with pre- and post-judgment interest.

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