GeoComply Files Lawsuit Claiming XPoint Infringes on Geolocation Patent

GeoComply Solutions filed a cause earliest this calendar week against XPoint Services inward a Delaware River federal homage this calendar week claiming its new competitor inwards the geolocation services field of force infringed on a letters patent the Canadian-based company owns.

The suit of clothes focuses on a patent for collecting geolocation information from a device, identifying programs on that device, and using II servers – including ane from a gaming operator – to reassert the physical location of the device. According to US Patent Office records, that plan was invented by Anna Sainsbury, co-founder and stream CEO of GeoComply.

GeoComply has used that technology to go a primary feather vendor for sports betting operators that must stick to to the federal Wire Act inwards states where they are licensed. The service confirms a better is physically placed inwards the body politic where sports betting is allowed and the manipulator holds a valid license before allowing the wager to live placed.

The keep company has also used its geolocation engineering to inform the media and public regarding the number of business relationship holders inwards legal states and the betting traffic they produce.

Records present GeoComply filed for a patent of invention inward December 2012, and the USPTO granted one in Aug 2016. The patent, which gives GeoComply sole rights to the intellectual property, is mark to expire inward Dec 2033.

XPoint Active in New Jersey

The lawsuit comes a week after XPoint proclaimed its geolocation service, XPoint Verify, was powering Sporttrade’s sports betting exchange, which was launched in New island of Jersey earliest this month. XPoint’s engineering also provides geolocation services for PlayStar’s iGaming app, which went live in New Jersey in August.

GeoComply said inward its complaint, which was filed on Tuesday, that XPoint’s method of confirming a bettor’s location mirrors its unconscious process inwards that it shares information with ii servers. That will do it “irreparable harm,” the accompany states.

GeoComply and XPoint are unmediated competitors inward the market place for geolocation and location verification services,” the complaint said. “As such, XPoint should follow enjoined from farther infringement of the ’805 Patent. GeoComply has spent valuable resources underdeveloped and refining—and patenting—its proprietary program for reliably and accurately determining the avowedly location of an end-user. Should XPoint proceed to commercialize its geolocation technology, GeoComply will live forced to compete against its own patented invention.”

GeoComply seeks a mind that XPoint has infringed on its patent, a lasting cease and desist order to keep XPoint from using the patented technology, and indemnity that include any profits XPoint generated from its geolocation service.

GeoComply Discovery Motion Denied

On Friday, US District Judge Colm Little Mo Connolly denied GeoComply a quest it made on Th for an expedited find and briefing schedule. It specifically sought that because fellowship officials require the power to key out “the precise lines inward the source code” of XPoint’s geolocation political program that infringe on its patent.

The bespeak for a hastened briefing schedule and uncovering full stop also came a solar day after XPoint proclaimed that it secured a multi-million-dollar investment. GeoComply said that it was non on “a mere fishing expedition” but wanted to follow “an efficient usage of the parties’ and Court’s resources.”

Connolly did not feel a compelling reason to grant GeoComply its request.

GeoComply expects to Indian file for a prelim injunction that, if granted, would mental block XPoint from offering its geolocation engineering platform. However, it’s incertain when that would follow filed.