Antitrust claims brought by a company that maintains a system for locating cellphones that have dialed 911 survived a motion to dismiss from several cellphone companies that favor a competing system.
U.S. District Senior Judge Robert F. Kelly of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania held that TruePosition, which brought the action, satisfied the requirements to bring a Section 1 Sherman Act violation suit after it filed an amended complaint. It made extensive allegations drawn from years of internal dealings at an organization that sets the standards for the cellphone industry. The antitrust suit targets the standard-setting organization and several participating cellphone companies.
