Defendant

Comverse, Inc.

2 cases as defendant.

Cases
2
Active
0
2 closed
Filed
2006
Top venue
E.D. Texas Marshall
2 cases

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Comverse, Inc. is the name of two related U.S. telecommunications-software entities. The first was incorporated on Nov. 19, 1997 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Comverse Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: CMVT), the Woodbury, New York telecom-software holding company founded in 1982–84 and public from 1986, with most R&D in Israel. The second was the independent public company created when Comverse Technology distributed the Comverse Network Systems business to shareholders on Oct. 31, 2012; it traded on Nasdaq as CNSI from Nov. 1, 2012, was headquartered in Wakefield, Massachusetts, and reported roughly $678 million in FY2012 revenue with about 3,000 employees (750 in Israel) as of March 2015 (Wikipedia; GlobeNewswire; Light Reading).

Operations. Comverse sold software and systems to communications service providers — mobile voicemail and visual voicemail, SMS/MMS messaging gateways, prepaid and converged billing/charging (Comverse ONE), business support systems (BSS), IP communications, and managed/professional services. It is an operating company, not a shell licensor. In June 2015 it divested its BSS business to Amdocs; in August 2015 it acquired Acision and renamed itself Xura, Inc. (Nasdaq: MESG). Siris Capital Group took Xura private in 2016 (~$643 million), and Xura was merged into Mavenir in 2017.

Litigation posture. The structured data show Comverse only as a defendant (0 plaintiff, 2 defendant), consistent with an operating company being sued rather than an NPE asserting patents. Both tracked entries correspond to the same 2006 action, Freedom Wireless, Inc. v. Alltel Corp. et al., No. 2:06-cv-00504, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division — a plaintiff-friendly patent venue.

Case context. Freedom Wireless, a small Phoenix patent-holding and licensing company, asserted three patents (issued 1998–2001) covering prepaid security cellular systems against Alltel and its prepaid-service suppliers, Comverse and VeriSign, among others. VeriSign settled in 2008; the case was terminated in November 2010. Comverse's specific disposition is not verified by the sources reviewed. Note that the 2006 defendant predates the 2012 spin-off and is the Comverse Technology subsidiary; the two tracked entries appear to be duplicates of the same case.

Freedom Wireless, Inc. v. Alltel Corp. et al.

closed
Docket:
2:06-cv-00504
Filed:
2006-11-30
Patents:6157823
π Freedom Wireless, Inc.Δ Alltel Corp.Δ Alltel Communications, Inc.Δ United States Cellular Corp.Δ Cricket Communications, Inc.Δ Comverse, Inc.Δ VeriSign, Inc.Δ Plateau Telecommunications, Inc.Δ E.N.M.R. Plateau Telephone Cooperative

Freedom Wireless asserted claims 17, 22, 27, 30, and 34 of U.S. 6,157,823 against Alltel, U.S. Cellular, Cricket, Comverse, VeriSign, and others in the Eastern District of Texas. The case was closed in 2010 after substantive resolution, terms unconfirmed.

Freedom Wireless, Inc. v. Alltel Corp. et al.

closed
Docket:
2:06-cv-00504
Patents:5722067
π Freedom Wireless, Inc.Δ Alltel Corp.Δ Alltel Communications, Inc.Δ Cricket Communications, Inc.Δ United States Cellular Corp.Δ Comverse, Inc.Δ Plateau Telecommunications, Inc.Δ E.N.M.R. Plateau Telephone CooperativeΔ VeriSign, Inc.

Freedom Wireless sued Alltel and other entities in E.D. Tex. Marshall Division (filed Nov. 29–30, 2006). A 2008 claim-construction opinion addressed claim 15 of the '067 patent and construed 'call' and 'reserved pre-paid cellular telephone number'; the case closed, with sources conflicting on termination date and no merits judgment or damages award found.