Sprint Nextel Found To Infringe Location Privacy Patents, Announces Dovel & Luner...

Sprint Nextel Found To Infringe Location Privacy Patents, Announces Dovel & Luner LLP

LOS ANGELES--(Business Wire)--
Dovel & Luner LLP today announced that a Los Angeles jury has
found Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S) liable for infringing two patents owned
by California company Enovsys LLC. The jury returned its verdict late
Friday, May 16, 2008, and awarded Enovsys past damages of $2.78
million.

The patents relate to a privacy system used to protect and manage
the disclosure of the precise location of a user's cell phone (e.g.,
the phone's GPS position). Enovsys had alleged that Sprint Nextel's
wireless networks use the patents in managing location-based services
provided by the nation's third largest wireless carrier. Testimony at
trial showed that Sprint Nextel is the market leader in the growing
field of location services and saw a 50% increase in related revenues
in 2007 over the prior year.

Inventors Mundi Fomukong and Denzil Chesney applied for the first
of the patents in 1997, several years before location services were
first offered for cell phones. Enovsys is an intellectual property
holding company privately held by inventor Fomukong.

"We appreciate the jury's service in this case and feel they came
to a just result. Their verdict will ensure that the Enovsys patents
are respected by Sprint and others for the remaining nine years of
their term," said Jeff Eichmann, of Dovel & Luner LLP, who represented
Enovsys along with Greg Dovel.

Dovel & Luner LLP
Greg Dovel or Jeff Eichmann, 310-656-7066

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