Defendant

Jun Saito

1 case as defendant.

Cases
1
Active
0
1 closed
Filed
2019
Top venue
PTAB
1 case

Company profile

Jun Saito is an individual, not a company. The name in the litigation database corresponds to the named inventor on U.S. Patent No. 7,324,487 ("Wireless LAN System and Method for Roaming in a Multiple Base Station"), issued Jan. 29, 2008, filed Feb. 10, 2003, and claiming priority to a Feb. 12, 2002 Japanese application. The patent's assignee of record at issuance was Hitachi, Ltd. (Tokyo); Saito is listed as residing in Sagamihara, Japan (USPTO patent front page). There is no corporate profile — headquarters, headcount, revenue band, or ownership status — for "Jun Saito," and none should be inferred.

Products / services: none. Saito is a natural-person inventor, not an operating company and not a corporate patent-assertion vehicle. The relevant asset is the '487 patent family, directed to wireless-LAN roaming and base-station load balancing across multilink connections. Ownership of that patent now sits with Maxell, Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan), the former Hitachi Maxell electronics/battery business; Maxell's 2018 complaint states it "is the owner by assignment of the '487 Patent."

Litigation posture: The single tracked matter is IPR2019-00462, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. v. Jun Saito, filed Jan. 4, 2019 and terminated-settled Apr. 17, 2019. Saito appears as respondent/patent owner — a defensive posture, consistent with the data (0 plaintiff cases, 1 defendant case). The joint motion to terminate names Maxell, Ltd. as Patent Owner, so the docket's use of the inventor's name appears to be a naming artifact. The IPR was one of nine Huawei-vs-Maxell PTAB proceedings terminated together after a global settlement (Patent 7,324,487; PTAB/Docket Alarm).

Notable context: Maxell asserted the '487 patent against Huawei in Maxell Ltd. v. Huawei Device USA, Inc., No. 5:18-cv-00033 (E.D. Tex., filed Mar. 2, 2018) — a plaintiff-friendly venue — accusing handsets including the Mate 9 and Honor lines "by way of example." Maxell later asserted the same patent, with five others, in ITC Investigation No. 337-TA-1324 (2022) against Lenovo and Motorola Mobility (Federal Register).

Sources: USPTO patent 7,324,487; PTAB IPR2019-00462 filings and joint motion to terminate; E.D. Tex. complaint 5:18-cv-00033; Federal Register ITC notices (2022).