British Telecom has sued 14 mobile operators because of a basic patent infringement. The lawsuit was submitted by Steelhead Licensing, LLC Company on January 4, 2013.
British Telecom said, it had the patents of two technologies. One is a cellular technology which can evaluate the signal strength of the device that received from the base station of the "honeycomb" and the other one is able to initiate a switch between the cellular technology patents. The company said in the lawsuit, 3G and 4G networks and equipments applying for this technology violated its patents. Companies involved in the suitcase were Apple, AT & T, the German telecom (parent company of T-Mobile U.S.), HTC, Kyocera, LG, MetroPCS, Motorola, NECCasio, Korean Pan Thai, RIM, SprintNextel, Verizon and ZTE Communications.
In the claim, Steelhead called for compensation for the defendants’ infringement behavior before the permanent prohibit and any continuing and / or future tort damages, including damage compensation, plus payment of the company legal costs. The patent involved in the case was granted to British Telecom in 1996.