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WirelessWERX IP Campaign Provides a Double Dose of Panama
New Patent Litigation
It looks as if April 2024 will end with three additional defendants having been sued in the sole litigation campaign of WirelessWERX IP LLC, a DynaIP and Pueblo Nuevo LLC plaintiff. Those defendants are Trimble (1:24-cv-01035), MapleBear (d/b/a Instacart) (6:24-cv-00208), and AT&T (2:24-cv-00282), accused, in April complaints filed in that order in three separate district courts, of infringing patents from a family generally related to communicating with a device inside a “pre-defined geographical zones”. AT&T’s and Trimble’s accused products are their TruckMate and Fleet Management platforms, respectively, while Instacart is targeted over the provision of its “products and technology platform for connecting consumers with restaurants and other merchants”, including the Instacart website.
April 27, 2024
New Defendants Tagged in FlickIntelligence’s AR and VR Campaign
New Patent Litigation
So far in April, FlickIntelligence, LLC, an entity associated with Ortiz & Lopez PLLC, has added suits against EON Reality (8:24-cv-00841) in the Central District of California and HTC (HTC America) (5:24-cv-02201) in the Northern District of California. The sole asserted patent generally relates to “displaying additional information about a scene element displayed in a frame of video content”. HTC is accused of infringement through the provision of the VIVE XR Elite headset, while EON Reality is accused over the EON-XR platform.
April 26, 2024
Facet Technology Files Two New Complaints, One Under Seal
New Patent Litigation
Facet Technology Corp. has expanded its sole litigation campaign with a suit against Nokia (HERE Global) (2:24-cv-00269) in the Eastern District of Texas, as well as a sealed complaint against TomTom (1:24-cv-00111) in the District of New Hampshire. Against HERE Global, the plaintiff asserts two patents generally related to an “automated system” for classifying a sensed “reflective surface” as a road marker; the defendant is accused of infringement through the provision of its “HD Mapping system”, which allegedly incorporates “travel path features determined from LiDAR cloud map technology”.
April 26, 2024
Another Ramey-Repped Plaintiff . . . Misses the Call
In Case You Missed It
Litigation between MISSED CALL, LLC, a Dynamic IP Deals, LLC (d/b/a DynaIP) and Pueblo Nuevo LLC plaintiff, and Twilio has made headlines for several reasons in the past, but now it can be added to the list of matters involving a party represented by Ramey LLP that has missed an important deadline, here to respond to a motion a dismiss. Northern District of California Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler posted an order last Friday noting that MISSED CALL’s opposition (or statement of nonopposition) to Twilio’s motion to dismiss was due on April 8, 2024, but “[n]othing was filed”—ordering the plaintiff to make such a filing, or otherwise request more time, by April 22 at 2 p.m. Among its reasons for issuing the order is “to give notice to the plaintiff of the consequences of not participating in the litigation, including monetary sanctions and dismissal of the case for failure to prosecute it”. The latter consequence has now fallen upon the plaintiff: After MISSED CALL missed this latest deadline as well, Judge Beeler ordered the plaintiff to dismiss the case with prejudice.
April 26, 2024
Ramey LLP Seeks to Maintain Appeals, Apparently to Defend Against Any Sanctions in the Court Below
In Case You Missed It, TPLF
Last Friday, the Federal Circuit gave CTD Networks LLC, a plaintiff under the apparent control of “AiPi, LLC (f/k/a AiPi Solutions)”, and district court defendant Alphabet (Google) a week “to file an updated status report indicating how they believe this appeal should now proceed” now that Whitestone Law has apprised the court that it has no plans to enter an appearance in the matter. On February 2, 2024, CTD’s current counsel, Ramey LLP, was allowed to withdraw from the appeal conditioned on the entry of appearance of new counsel for CTD Networks within 30 days. Per Ramey LLP’s emergency motion to withdraw, “In short, AiPi and Whitestone appear to be purposely prejudicing Ramey LLP’s and CTD Network’s [sic] interests in the pending appeal at the Federal Circuit by not filing an appeal brief”.
April 21, 2024
GenghisComm Sues Samsung over LTE/4G- and 5G-Compliant Devices
New Patent Litigation
Inventor-controlled plaintiff GenghisComm Holdings, LLC has added Samsung (2:24-cv-00242) to its sole litigation campaign, which targets devices that are compliant with the 4G/LTE and 5G wireless networking standards. In the new Eastern District of Texas complaint, the plaintiff asserts eight patents broadly directed to wireless communications. Since launching this campaign in March 2022, GenghisComm has sued eight defendants, including ASUSTek, Continental, LG Electronics (LGE), OnePlus, and Toyota.
April 21, 2024
IdeaHub’s Pantech Secures Jury Verdict, Faces New Standing Challenge
Patent Litigation Feature
On April 1, 2024, an Eastern District of Texas jury returned a verdict in favor of plaintiffs Pantech Corporation and Pantech Wireless, LLC, awarding against OnePlus $7.41M for infringement of three standard essential patents (SEPs) and $2.85M for infringement of the other two wireless communications patents-in-suit. Two weeks earlier, the same two plaintiffs filed a second suit against OnePlus in the same district (5:24-cv-00038), there alleging infringement of eight additional patents through the provision of smartphones and other devices compliant with the LTE and/or 5G cellular networking standards. Meanwhile, in a separate Pantech case also before District Judge Robert W. Schroeder III, LG Electronics (LGE) has just filed a sealed motion to dismiss for lack of standing.
April 20, 2024
Texas Jury Returns $142M Verdict for G+ Communications in Damages Retrial
Patent Litigation Feature
In late January 2024, an Eastern District of Texas jury returned a $62.5M verdict in G+ Communications LLC’s case against Samsung, finding infringement for two of three asserted patents—and characterizing those damages as a running royalty, as opposed to a lump sum. However, in early March, Chief Judge Rodney Gilstrap vacated the damages award and ordered a retrial on that issue for the two infringed patents, finding that the jury had “probably” been confused on the difference between those two types of damages because neither party had discussed this distinction at trial. Now, a second jury has returned a new verdict on damages, this one totaling $142M.
April 20, 2024
Dell Next Up for Atlantic IP’s Eireog; Amazon, for Its Croga
New Patent Litigation
Plaintiffs associated with Dublin-based monetization firm Atlantic IP Services Limited continue to file new cases, week after week. Eireog Innovations Limited hit Dell (1:26-cv-00416) in the Western District of Texas over four former NXP patents last week, while Croga Innovations Limited sued Amazon (Amazon Web Services) (1:24-cv-00398) in the same district over a single former L3Harris patent. The Dell complaint focuses on the provision of a wide variety of products, including laptops, desktops, and servers, allegedly “using Intel-based CPUs (Haswell-based architecture and newer)”; the Amazon complaint, of the AWS VPC (Virtual Private cloud), AWS EC2, and AWS Network Firewall products.
April 20, 2024
TCS Divestitures Drive Recent Litigation Campaigns
Patent Market, Patent Watch
Two transfers of patents away from TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) dated last year were recently recorded with the USPTO. A February 2023 batch of six US patents to MDSP Technologies LLC was recorded on the same day as the May 2023 divestiture of nine others to ALD Social LLC. MDSP litigated two of its received assets in a brief campaign running from April to September and involving Alphabet (Google), Apple, Garmin, Samsung, and TomTom. ALD Social has also litigated patents received from TCS—against Alert Media, Apple, AT&T, Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile), Google, Verizon, and Verkada—but not the ones moved as part of that May 2023 transfer.
April 20, 2024