![]() Law firms Haynes and Boone, LLP and Hitt Gaines, P.C. stated that they, along with General Electric are indemnifying numerous of these defendant utilities in the litigations. ![]() ![]() According to recent SEC filings, Itron, Inc. (d/b/a CoServ Electric) Alabama Power Company, Georgia Power Company, and Mississippi Power Company, subsidiaries of Southern Company Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co. Previously, the Court adopted TransData’s proposed claim construction with respect to the term “electric meter circuitry” - a term the defendants characterized as “determinative” and “case dispositive” earlier in the litigations.ĭefendants in the litigation include CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric LLC Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC Texas-New Mexico Power Company Denton Municipal Utilities San Diego Gas & Electric Co. In particular, the Court rejected all of the defendants' proposed constructions and also rejected defendants' argument that the Smart Meter Patents were invalid as indefinite. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma after the Court issued a ruling that construed all the disputed claim terms language of the Smart Meter Patents in a manner consistent with the constructions offered by TransData. TransData also recently prevailed at a claim construction hearing held at the U.S. After concluding the reexaminations and considering hundreds of prior art references cited, the Patent Office ruled in TransData’s favor, re-confirmed validity of all the contested patents, and allowed 33 new claims to be added to TransData’s U.S. Patent Office challenging the validity of TransData’s Smart Meter Patents. As a result of initiating litigation, a third-party filed four patent reexamination requests with the U.S. In October 2010, TransData filed the first of several lawsuits alleging that numerous electric utilities were infringing its patented technology without authorization. The agreement covers technology TransData first invented in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and deployed in the mid-1990s that is directed towards digital electric meters equipped with an internal wireless communication circuit and antenna, that enables the electric meter circuitry within the meter to communicate wirelessly. “This new licensing agreement further exhibits the significant advancement TransData’s patents provide and their importance to the manufacture and operation of smart meters,” says attorney Jamie McDole of Haynes and Boone, LLP, counsel for TransData. “We are extremely pleased to have signed our first smart meter patent license agreement,” says Trace Gleibs, President of TransData. Today’s announcement marks the first license agreement generated by TransData’s Smart Meter Patents since TransData began enforcing its intellectual property. 6,181,294 6,462,713 and 6,903,699 (the “Smart Meter Patents”) to a leading smart grid solutions provider. ![]() 6, 2013 - PRLog - DALLAS – TransData Inc., a leading manufacturer of advanced solid-state electricity meters announced today that it has licensed its wireless smart electric meter patent portfolio consisting of U.S.
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