Patent suits filed Nov. 27, 2012, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Ericsson Inc. and Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson v. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung Electronics America Inc. and Samsung Telecommunications America LLP
Civil Action No: 6:12-cv-00894-LED
Cause of Action: Filed for the alleged infringement of U.S. Patent No. 6,029,052, entitled “Multiple Mode Direct Conversion Receiver;” U.S. Patent No. 6,058,359, entitled “Speech Coding Including Soft Adaptability Feature;” U.S. Patent No. 6,278,888, entitled “Radiotelephones Having Contact-Sensitive User Interfaces and Methods of Operating Same;” U.S. Patent No. 6,301,556, entitled “Reducing Sparseness in Coded Speech Signals;” U.S. Patent No. 6,418,310, entitled “Wireless Subscriber Terminal Using Java Control Code;” U.S. Patent No. 6,445,917, entitled “Mobile Station Measurements With Event-Based Reporting;” U.S. Patent No. 6,473,506, entitled “Signaling Using Phase Rotation Techniques in a Digital Communications System;” U.S. Patent No. 6,519,223, entitled “System and Method for Implementing a Semi Reliable Retransmission Protocol;” U.S. Patent No. 6,624,832, entitled “Methods, Apparatus, and Computer Program Products for Providing User Input to an Application Using a Contact-Sensitive Surface;” U.S. Patent No. 6,772,215, entitled “Method for Minimizing Feedback Responses in ARQ Protocols” and U.S. Patent No. 8,169,992, entitled “Uplink Scrambling During Random Access.”
Plaintiffs’ Attorneys: Mike McKool Jr., Douglas A. Cawley and Theodore Stevenson III, McKool Smith, Dallas; Sam Baxter, McKool Smith, Marshall

Ericsson Inc. and Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson v. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung Electronics America Inc. and Samsung Telecommunications America LLP
Civil Action No: 6:12-cv-00895-LED
Cause of Action: Filed for the alleged infringement of U.S. Patent No. 6,259,724, entitled “Random Access in a Mobile Telecommunications System;” U.S. Patent No. 6,400,376, entitled “Display Control for Data Processing Device;” U.S. Patent No. 6,466,568, entitled “Multi-Rate Radiocommunication Systems and Terminals;” U.S. Patent No. 6,502,063, entitled “Method and Apparatus for Recursive Filtering of Parallel Intermittent Streams of Unequally Reliable Time Discrete Data;” U.S. Patent No. 6,597,787, entitled “Echo Cancellation Device for Cancelling Echos in a Transceiver Unit;” U.S. Patent No. 6,732,069, entitled “Linear Predictive Analysis-by-Synthesis Encoding Method and Coder;” U.S. Patent No. 6,865,233, entitled “Method and System for Control Signalling Enabling Flexible Link Adaptation in a Radiocommunication System;” U.S. Patent No. 6,985,474, entitled “Random Access in a Mobile Telecommunications System;” U.S. Patent No. 7,660,417, entitled “Enhanced Security Design for Cryptography in Mobile Communication Systems;” U.S. Patent No. 7,707,592, entitled “Mobile Terminal Application Subsystem and Access Subsystem Architecture Method and System;” U.S. Patent No. 7,769,078, entitled “Apparatus, Methods, and Computer Program Products for Delay Selection in a Spread-
Spectrum Receiver;” U.S. Patent No. 7,961,709, entitled “Secondary Synchronization Sequences for Cell Group Detection in a Cellular Communications System” and U.S. Patent No. 8,036,150, entitled “Method and a Device for Improved Status Reports.”
Plaintiffs’ Attorneys: Mike McKool Jr., Douglas A. Cawley and Theodore Stevenson III, McKool Smith, Dallas; Sam Baxter, McKool Smith, Marshall

Wellogix Technology Licensing LLC v. Automatic Data Processing Inc. and EnCana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc.
Civil Action No: 6:12-cv-00896-LED
Cause of Action: Filed for the alleged infringement of U.S. Patent No. 8,321,313, entitled “Method and Process for Providing Relevant Data, Comparing Proposal Alternatives, and Reconciling Proposals, Invoices, and Purchase Orders with Actual Costs in a Workflow Process.”
Plaintiff’s Attorneys: Michael Smith, Siebman, Burg, Phillips & Smith, Marshall; James P. Brogan, Orion Armon and Brian Eutermoser, Cooley LLP, Broomfield, Colo., of counsel; Jack Hobaugh, Cooley LLP, Reston, Va., of counsel

Wireless Remote System LLC v. LibreStream Technologies Inc.
Civil Action No: 6:12-cv-00899
Cause of Action: Filed for the alleged infringement of U.S. Patent No. 6,317,039 and U.S. Patent No. 6,690,273, both entitled “Wireless Video and Audio Data Remote System.”
Plaintiff’s Attorneys: Christopher M. Joe and Monica Tavakoli, Buether Joe & Carpenter, Dallas; Sean T. O’Kelly, O’Kelly Ernst & Bielli, Wilmington, Del., pro hac vice

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[Bill Shields]

Its reasons like this why I wouldn't want to be an attorney. I'd have too much paperwork to do, and then I wouldn't even be liked by that many people. Luckily, here in Gurnee IL, I can choose any occupation I want!