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Bell Northern Research, LLC has filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission against proposed respondents BBK Electronics, BLU Products, HMD Global, Lenovo, Sonim, and TCL.

In mid-August, Bell Northern Research, LLC hit Apple and Lenovo with separate Western District of Texas lawsuits over overlapping subsets of the large portfolio of patents received from Broadcom.

Any long-time SparkFun reader may know that we really enjoy writing about the whacking legal entanglements weve experienced, whether it’s cease-and-desist letters from Sparc International, tossing out 4,000 DMMs, or dealing with counterfeit ICs. Unfortunately, now it’s time we talk about patent trolls. Since a few of my international friends looked at me funny when I mentioned it, a patent troll is a company that is specifically set up to purchase the rights to a handful of patents and th...