On February 2, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California found that Blueprint was guilty of infringing on a Nomadix patent protecting key technology for redirecting user computers to captive portal pages. The ruling actually came out after the court had previously denied three summary judgement motions filed by Blueprint RF to invalidate Nomadix's patents.
The availability of high speed internet access is a major factor determining consumer satisfaction when staying in hotel or resort lodgings. This is the market Blueprint RF has been meddling with Nomadix's IP territory.
Nomadix’s Internet access gateway technologies allow a business to control public connectivity to their private wireless Internet networks. These gateways are in use in places like hotels, cafes, laundromats or other businesses where WiFi is offered to customers. The company holds more than 100 patents across 15 areas of functionality and has shipped more than 50,000 units across the globe over the past decade. The company holds 51 U.S. patents; as the Innography text cluster here will show readers, most of this intellectual property is focused on network gateways.
Hi Shauray,
ReplyDeleteInteresting post. I am not familiar with Blueprint or Nomadix and will have to do more research on them. It sounds like Nomadix has grounds to sue Blueprint. What was the size of the penalty Blueprint has to pay? Is it enough to shut them down?
Regards,
Liam Whalen