James F. Booth

For more than 25 years, James Booth has provided consulting and legal services to telecommunications carriers and to enterprise companies that manage their own telecommunications networks. Since June of 2009 he has also served as General Counsel of Spread Networks, LLC, which is the industry leader in the construction and operation of low latency high speed networks. Before joining Spread he was General Counsel for OnFiber Communications, a competitive telecommunications provider, and was the sole attorney for Qwest Communications International in support of its construction of an 18,800 mile fiber optic network spanning the United States. Earlier he was lead counsel for U S WEST in its wireless and cable television ventures in the United States, Europe and Hong Kong.

Friday, October 2, 2015

The ‘Inventor’ of the Mobile Internet Takes on Google, Samsung

Across the river from Reno’s casino district, above an Italian restaurant, you can find the little-known company that says it “invented the mobile Internet.”
Unwired Planet Inc. has 16 employees and no products. What it does have is a portfolio of more than 2,000 patents, mostly acquired from Ericsson AB, which it says on its website are “considered foundational to mobile communications.” The Nevada-based firm wants more than just recognition.
Starting next week it takes on three of the world’s biggest technology companies -- Samsung Electronics Co., Huawei Technologies Co. and Google Inc. -- in a London courtroom for six sprawling patent trials that will last more than a year.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-02/nevada-patent-troll-takes-on-google-samsung-in-london-court
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