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Telecomm Innovations LLC
Telecomm Innovations LLC
RICOH COMPANY, LTD., RICOH AMERICAS CORPORATION, LANIER WORLDWIDE, INC., AND SAVIN CORPORATION, Defendants JURY TRIAL DEMANDED Civil Action No. ______________
COMPLAINT FOR PATENT INFRINGEMENT Plaintiff Telecomm Innovations, LLC (Telecomm or Plaintiff), for its Complaint against Defendants Ricoh Company, Ltd. (Ricoh), Ricoh Americas Corporation (Ricoh Americas), Lanier Worldwide, Inc. (Lanier), Savin Corporation (Savin) (collectively, Defendants), alleges the following: NATURE OF THE ACTION 1. This is an action for patent infringement arising under the Patent Laws of the
United States, 35 U.S.C. 1 et seq. THE PARTIES 2. Plaintiff Telecomm is a limited liability company organized under the laws of the
State of Delaware with a place of business at 1209 Orange Street, Wilmington, Delaware, 19801. 3. Upon information and belief, Ricoh Company, Ltd. is a corporation organized and
existing under the laws of Japan, with its principal executive offices at Ch, Tokyo, Japan. Upon information and belief, Ricoh sells and offers to sell products and services throughout the United States, including in this judicial district, and introduces products and services that Page 1 of 5
perform infringing processes into the stream of commerce knowing that they would be sold in this judicial district and elsewhere in the United States. 4. Upon information and belief, Ricoh Americas Corporation is a corporation
organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, with its principal executive offices at 5 Dedrick Pl., West Caldwell, New Jersey 07006. Upon information and belief, Ricoh Americas sells and offers to sell products and services throughout the United States, including in this judicial district and introduces products and services that perform infringing processes into the stream of commerce knowing that they would be sold in this judicial district and elsewhere in the United States. 5. Upon information and belief, Lanier Worldwide, Inc. is a corporation organized
and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, with its principal executive offices at 131 Continental Drive, Suite 109, Newark, Delaware 19713-4305. Upon information and belief, Lanier sells and offers to sell products and services throughout the United States, including in this judicial district and introduces products and services that perform infringing processes into the stream of commerce knowing that they would be sold in this judicial district and elsewhere in the United States. 6. Upon information and belief, Savin Corporation is a corporation organized and
existing under the laws of the State of Idaho, with its principal executive offices at 5 Dedrick Pl., West Caldwell, New Jersey 07006. Upon information and belief, Savin sells and offers to sell products and services throughout the United States, including in this judicial district and introduces products and services that perform infringing processes into the stream of commerce knowing that they would be sold in this judicial district and elsewhere in the United States.
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JURISDICTION AND VENUE 7. This is an action for patent infringement arising under the Patent Laws of the
United States, Title 35 of the United States Code. 8. 9. 10. This Court has subject matter jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. 1331 and 1338(a). Venue is proper in this judicial district under 28 U.S.C. 1391(c) and 1400(b). Upon information and belief, each Defendant conducts substantial business in this
forum, directly or through intermediaries, including: (i) at least a portion of the infringements alleged herein; and (ii) regularly doing or soliciting business, engaging in other persistent courses of conduct and/or deriving substantial revenue from goods and services provided to individuals in Delaware. COUNT I INFRINGEMENT OF U.S. PATENT NO. 5,396,519 11. The allegations set forth in the foregoing paragraphs 1 through 10 are
incorporated into this First Claim for Relief. 12. On March 5, 1995, U.S. Patent No. 5,396,519 Patent (the 519 Patent), entitled
Method and Apparatus for Adaptively Providing Precoding and Preemphasis Conditioning to Signal Data for Transfer over a Communication Channel, was duly and legally issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. A true and correct copy of the 519 Patent is attached as Exhibit A. 13. Telecomm is the assignee and owner of the right, title and interest in and to the
519 Patent, including the right to assert all causes of action arising under said patent and the right to any remedies for infringement of it. 14. Upon information and belief, each of the Defendants has and continues to directly
infringe one or more claims of the 519 Patent by using, and/or providing and causing to be used products that incorporate dial up modems or functionalities that perform the signal conditioning Page 3 of 5
method claimed in the 519 Patent, including, without limitation, fax-capable products such as Fax 5510L, Aficio SP C231SF, Fax 1190L, LD520CSPF, 3770NF, 3515MF, and others (the Accused Instrumentalities). 15. Defendants were made aware of the 519 patent and their infringement thereof at
least as early as the filing of this Complaint. 16. At least as of the filing of this Complaint, each of the Defendants is, on
information and belief, inducing infringement of one or more claims of the 519 patent by, without limitation, making, using, importing, selling and/or offering for sale the Accused Instrumentalities for use by customers and others and also providing those customers and others with technical support and services, as well as detailed explanations, instructions and information as to arrangements, applications and uses of the Accused Instrumentalities that promote and demonstrate how to use the Accused Instrumentalities in a manner that would infringe the 519 patent. 17. Upon information and belief, at least as of the filing of this Complaint,
Defendants specifically intended to induce infringement by its customers and others by at least the acts set forth in paragraph 16, knowing that such acts would cause infringement and/or were willfully blind to the possibility that their inducing acts would cause infringement. Upon information and belief, Defendants customers and others have infringed and are continuing to infringe the 519 patent. 18. Telecomm has been harmed by Defendants infringing activities. JURY DEMAND Pursuant to Rule 38 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Telecomm demands a trial by jury on all issues triable as such.
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PRAYER FOR RELIEF WHEREFORE, Plaintiff Telecomm demands judgment for itself and against Defendants as follows: A. B. An adjudication that Defendants have infringed the 519 Patent; An award of damages to be paid by Defendants adequate to compensate
Telecomm for their past infringement of the 519 Patent, and any continuing or future infringement through the date such judgment is entered, including interest, costs, expenses and an accounting of all infringing acts including, but not limited to, those acts not presented at trial; C. A declaration that this case is exceptional under 35 U.S.C. 285, and an award of
Plaintiffs reasonable attorneys fees; and D. An award to Telecomm of such further relief at law or in equity as the Court
STAMOULIS & WEINBLATT LLC /s/ Richard C. Weinblatt Stamatios Stamoulis #4606 [email protected] Richard C. Weinblatt #5080 [email protected] Two Fox Point Centre 6 Denny Road, Suite 307 Wilmington, DE 19809 Telephone: (302) 999-1540 Attorneys for Plaintiff Telecomm Innovations, LLC
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