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4 cases as defendant.
I'll research this company.
Let me verify the NPE plaintiff and Sprint's operational details.
Sprint Solutions, Inc. is a Delaware corporation formed in 2002 and a wholly owned subsidiary of Sprint Corporation. Its principal offices were at the Sprint headquarters campus in Overland Park, Kansas (6200/6500 Sprint Parkway); corporate filings in the T-Mobile era list 12920 SE 38th Street, Bellevue, Washington. It was not a separately traded company and did not report its own headcount or revenue — those figures sit with its parent. Sprint Corporation was a NYSE-listed carrier (ticker "S") controlled by SoftBank Group Corp., serving roughly 54.5 million postpaid, prepaid and wholesale customers with net operating revenues of about $33.6 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2019 (per FCC Docket 18-197).
Sprint Solutions functioned as the contracting and sales entity through which the Sprint group sold wireless and wireline services — it signed public-sector, enterprise and distribution contracts on behalf of Sprint affiliates to avoid multiple signatories. The Sprint operating business offered postpaid and prepaid wireless voice/data (Sprint, Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile, Assurance Wireless brands), devices and accessories, wireline voice/data and enterprise services, and operated as a Tier 1 internet backbone provider. T-Mobile US acquired Sprint Corporation on April 1, 2020, making Sprint an indirect T-Mobile subsidiary; the Boost Mobile prepaid business was divested to DISH Network in July 2020.
Sprint Solutions is an operating company, not a patent assertion entity. The tracked data show 0 cases as plaintiff and 3 as defendant — the classic posture of a large carrier being attacked. All three tracked matters were filed on December 3, 2018 in the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division, a historically plaintiff-friendly patent venue.
The three cases are Sol IP, LLC v. Sprint Communications Co. L.P. et al., Sol IP, LLC v. Sprint Communications Company L.P. et al., and Sol IP, LLC v. AT&T Mobility LLC et al., in which Sprint Solutions was named as a consolidated defendant. Plaintiff Sol IP, LLC describes itself as an intellectual property licensing company based in Vienna, Virginia, holding an exclusive license to more than 600 patents from South Korea's Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI). The suits asserted LTE and Wi-Fi standard-essential patents and were consolidated with parallel actions against AT&T and Verizon; Ericsson and Nokia intervened.
Filed December 3, 2018 in E.D. Tex. Marshall Division and consolidated with Sol IP's AT&T lead case. The asserted-patent list for this docket includes US 10,090,894; the case was terminated on May 20, 2020 as dismissed - other.
Lead case in the Dec. 3, 2018 Sol IP E.D. Tex. campaign, filed in Marshall before Judge Schroeder and Magistrate Judge Payne. The consolidated caption named AT&T, Cellco/Verizon, and Sprint entities as defendants, with Ericsson and Nokia intervening; the campaign asserted 27 patents, including US 9,900,067. Closed on 2020-05-20; disposition not stated.
One of three Dec. 3, 2018 Sol IP cases in E.D. Tex. Marshall against Sprint entities. It was consolidated into lead case 2:18-cv-00526 and closed with the lead case; the campaign included US 9,900,067.
Consolidated patent infringement action asserting US 10,080,204 against AT&T Mobility, Sprint entities, and Verizon Wireless. Consolidated with 2:18-cv-00527-RWS-RSP (Sprint) and 2:18-cv-00528-RWS-RSP (Verizon); Ericsson Inc. and Nokia of America Corporation intervened. Dismissed (Dismissed - Other) on May 20, 2020.