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Let me dig further into the company's identity and the patent portfolio.
Let me check the company's corporate status and any operational history.
Triune Star, Inc. was an Illinois domestic business corporation (Illinois registry ID 12875837; registered agent and president listed as Dian Wilkinson) that is now recorded as dissolved in Illinois state records. Its principal contact appears to have been in the Streator, Illinois area. No public source establishes employee count, revenue, funding, or parent ownership, and there is no evidence it was publicly traded. It does not appear in company or product directories as a seller of goods or services.
Operations. The record gives no indication that Triune Star manufactured, sold, or operated anything. Its only identified asset was a single utility patent, U.S. 6,122,521, "Telecommunications Locating System," issued September 19, 2000, and naming Dian Wilkinson, Susan L. Wheatland, and George W. Boehne as inventors. The patent claims a mobile remote unit combining a satellite navigation receiver with a video camera to transmit position and image data to a base station. On the available evidence, Triune Star functioned as a small patent-holding vehicle rather than an operating company; I could not verify any commercial product line.
Litigation posture. Both tracked cases list Triune Star solely as plaintiff, with zero appearances as defendant — the profile of a one-patent asserter. It is not, however, a serial multi-patent PAE; the two dockets reflect a single patent asserted against handset makers, with the second entry being the appeal of the first. Notably, the cases were filed in the Central District of Illinois, Peoria (the plaintiff's home forum), not a plaintiff-friendly venue like the Eastern District of Texas.
Notable cases. In Triune Star, Inc. v. The Walt Disney Company et al. (C.D. Ill., 1:07-cv-01256, filed September 28, 2007), Triune sued Disney, WDIG Mobile, Pantech entities, and LG entities over camera-equipped cellular phones. Disney was dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction. On November 24, 2008, the court granted summary judgment of non-infringement for LG and Pantech, finding the accused phones used visible-light cameras with IR cut filters, and imposed Rule 11 sanctions on Triune and its counsel; a fee order followed on April 22, 2009. Triune appealed, and the Federal Circuit (Triune Star, Inc. v. LG Electronics MobileComm U.S.A., Inc. et al., No. 09-1371, filed May 18, 2009) issued opinions in June and August 2009.