BARCELONA, SPAIN – On April 7, 2010, Fractus S.A. of Barcelona, Spain announced that it has entered into a non-exclusive, worldwide patent license agreement with Motorola, Inc. The agreement includes a license under all of Fractus’ patents related to internal antennas and covers the sale of all Motorola products.
“This deal represents a major milestone in our efforts to obtain recognition for the valuable technology our company developed and brought to industry,” said Rubén Bonet, President & CEO of Fractus. IPotential, LLC served as broker for Fractus in the negotiation of this license agreement.
Fractus filed recently a patent infringement case against ten cell phone manufacturers in the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division, Case No. 6:09-cv-203. Fractus is represented in the Tyler case by Susman Godfrey L.L.P. and Heim, Payne & Chorush, L.L.P. Motorola was not a party to this litigation.
About Fractus:
Fractus is an early pioneer in developing internal antennas for cellular phones and other industries. Founded in 1999, Fractus set out to meet the challenge of delivering antennas small enough to fit inside a cell phone yet powerful enough to support today’s multiband cell phones. Fractus has been, and remains an active supplier of antennas and has shipped millions of antennas worldwide. Among the numerous awards and honors the company has received for its innovative work, Fractus has been named a 2005 Davos World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer and one of Red Herring’s top innovative companies for 2006. It has also won the 2004 Frost & Sullivan award for technological innovation and the 2007 Elektra European Electronics Industry R&D Award. Fractus holds over 80 patents worldwide, including over 30 United States patents. For more information, please see https://www.fractus.com/.
About IPotential, LLC
Based in Silicon Valley, IPotential LLC is the technology industry’s leading provider of
complete intellectual property (IP) strategy and patent monetization services. Founded in 2003 to provide patent owners with the expertise in patent transactions and IP strategy as typically available at top multinational technology companies, IPotential has brokered over $1 billion in patent transactions, including both patent sales and patent licensing. The company serves patent owners of all types, including individual inventors, small to large enterprises, and private equity investors, worldwide. For more information, visit http://www.ipotential.com.
For information contact:
Fractus Media contact US:
Nick Gaffney
Infinite Public Relations, LLC
(415) 732-7801
ngaffney@infinitepr.com
Fractus Media contact Spain:
Silvia Alsina
Román y Asociados
Aribau 230-240 Planta 6 Despacho CDE
08006 Barcelona
+34 934 142 340
s.alsina@romanyasociados.es
