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October 1, 2008 – NorthPeak Wireless, LLC, announced today that it has filed a patent infringement suit against a number of companies infringing NorthPeak’s patented direct sequence spread spectrum wireless technology.  NorthPeak, owner of the NSSPP™, which contains a number of patents covering numerous aspects of wireless communications technology, named a number of defendants in the suit, including 3Com Corporation, Acer America Corporation, Belkin International, Inc., Buffalo Technology (USA), Inc., D-Link Systems, Inc., Epson America, Inc., Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company, Netgear, Inc., SonicWALL, Inc., Sony Electronics Inc., Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., Trendnet Systems, Inc., U.S. Robotics Corporation, ViewSonic Corporation, and ZyXEL Communications, Inc., among others.  NorthPeak has asserted two patents from the NSSPP™ – U.S. Patent Nos. 4,977,577 and 5,987,058 – in this case, which was filed in the Northern District of Alabama’s Huntsville Division. 

Ryan K. Walsh, a Partner in Coughlin Stoia’s Intellectual Property Practice Group and counsel to NorthPeak, stated, “NorthPeak has asserted this suit not only to protect its intellectual property rights and those of the licensees of this technology, but also to protect the valuable contributions that the inventors have made to the field of direct sequence spread spectrum technology.”  

About NorthPeak Wireless, LLC

NorthPeak is a limited liability company based in Atlanta, Georgia that holds the rights to several key patents in the field of direct sequence spread spectrum technology.  The NorthPeak Spread Spectrum Patent Portfolio (NSSPP™), which includes the patents at issue in this suit, have been licensed to numerous licensees in a variety of fields.  Multiple products deployed throughout the U.S. contain the valuable technology embodied in the NSSPP™.    

About Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP

Coughlin Stoia, a 190-lawyer firm with offices in San Diego, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Boca Raton, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and Atlanta, is consistently ranked as the world’s leading plaintiff’s firm, having recovered billions of dollars for its clients.  The firm is active in major litigations pending in federal and state courts throughout the United States and has taken a leading role in many important actions on behalf of defrauded investors, consumers, inventors and companies, as well as victims of human rights violations.  The Coughlin Stoia Web site (http://www.csgrr.com) has more information about the firm.