Patent and Trademark Office, including four challenges filed by Itron and nine by General Electric. These electric utility cases are currently ongoing and are proceeding toward trial.Īs a result of the electric utility litigations, TransData's Smart Meter Patents have been subjected to 13 validity challenges at the U.S.
company), CenterPoint Energy, Texas-New Mexico Power Co., Oklahoma Gas & Electric Company, San Diego Gas & Electric Company, CoServ Electric, Denton Municipal Electric, and Tri-County Electric Cooperative. Current licensees of TransData's Smart Meter Patents include Sensus USA, Sensus Metering, Southern Company, Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Mississippi Power, Gulf Power, M2M Technologies and Telensa Ltd., among others.įive years ago, TransData instituted litigation over these same patents against several electric utilities, including Oncor Electric Delivery (an Energy Future Holdings Corp. TransData's Smart Meter Patents relate to the Company's development of the first digital electric meter to be equipped with an internal "under-glass" wireless communication circuit and antenna. 6,181,294 6,462,713 and 6,903,699 (the "Smart Meter Patents") by making, using, selling, and/or offering for sale in the United States, or importing into the United States various digital electric meters equipped with an internal "under-glass" wireless communication circuit and antenna. In the lawsuits, TransData asserts that General Electric, Itron and Landis+Gyr are willfully infringing TransData's U.S. (NASDAQ: ITRI) and Landis+Gyr AG (60% owned by Toshiba Corp (TYO: 6502), and 40% by Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ), a public-private partnership between the Japanese government and more than 25 individual corporations). 16, 2015 /PRNewswire/ - TransData, Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of digital electricity meters and related energy measurement products for the electric utility industry for over 45 years, today announced that the company has filed patent infringement lawsuits in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against General Electric (NYSE: GE), Itron, Inc.
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