Raineport's List: Building Automation Mesh Radio

• Sipco Targeting Building Management Industry With Patent

• Digi International Fights Back Against Patent Creeps
• Control4 Corp., Digi International Inc., Schneider Electric Buildings Inc., and Schneider Electric USA Corp
• Digi makes Xbee and Zigbee wireless transcievers
• The arguments that Digi, Control4, and Schneider are making in their counter suit are very damning. If they hold up, it will wreck Sipco, and unravel their agreements with other parties. The heart of the argument is that the patents should not have been granted because prior art renders them obvious. In other words, mesh network structures are and were known, and some or all of the technology is in the public domain.

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• Sipco, LLC v. Datamatic
• SIPCO, LLC,
  PLAINTIFF,
  v.
  DATAMATIC, LTD.,
  EKA SYSTEMS, INC., JURY TRIAL DEMANDED JOHNSON CONTROLS, INC., SENSUS USA INC., AND
  TRILLIANT NETWORKS INC.,
  DEFENDANTS.

• Sipco’s latest complaint (Sipco-ABB_Complaint), filed in federal court in Tyler, Texas, names Coulomb Technologies and ECOtality as defendants, as well as additional energy management, control system, and wireless companies such as EnergyHub, Jetlun, SmartLabs, ABB, and Ingersoll-Rand.

• Begun, the Cleantech Patent War Has

    

      On April 8, 2011,   in Blog,   by Eric Lane  

   

   

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• Clean tech is now in the midst of a second wave of NPP litigation.  Leading the charge is Sipco LLC (Sipco), an Atlanta, Georgia-based developer of wireless mesh technology. In August 2009 Sipco sued Florida Power & Light Co. and FPL Group Inc. in federal court in Miami, alleging that the wireless network technology in the utility’s smart grid system infringes three Sipco patents relating to smart grid technology.  Sipco struck again in November 2010 suing such smart grid companies as Energate, Ecobee, Rainforest Automation, SmartSynch, AMX Corporation, SimpleHomeNet and CentraLite Systems.
• Earlier this year, Sipco expanded the scope of its patent enforcement activity to target players in the electric vehicle charging station space including Coulomb Technologies and ECOtality, as well as additional energy management, control system, and wireless companies such as EnergyHub, Jetlun, SmartLabs, ABB, and Ingersoll-Rand.

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