Valtrus Innovations Limited (f/k/a Dolya Holdco 9 Limited)

Pictiva Displays International Limited (f/k/a Dolya Holdco 5 Limited) has filed a new Eastern District of Texas case against Samsung (2:24-cv-00532) asserting the same two former OSRAM patents appearing in the original complaint that it filed against Samsung last October, as well as the four patents that it added through its March 2024 amended complaint in that existing case. This time, Pictiva Displays has a coplaintiff, its parent, Irish monetization firm Key Patent Innovations Limited (KPI), described in the new complaint as “the beneficiary of a trust pursuant to which Pictiva owns, holds, and asserts the Asserted Patents”. The coplaintiffs plead that they “bring this complaint in an abundance of caution because another defendant has challenged KPI’s similarly-situated subsidiary Valtrus Innovations Limited’s standing to assert patents in its own portfolio”.

Valtrus Innovations Limited has launched a third campaign (as a formal matter), filing separate Eastern District of Texas suits against AT&T (AT&T Mobility) (2:23-cv-00443); Deutsche Telekom (Sprint, T-Mobile) and OnePlus (2:23-cv-00444); and Verizon (Verizon Wireless) (2:23-cv-00445). The defendants are accused of infringing the same set of nine former HP Enterprise (HPE) patents (with a tenth also mentioned in each complaint) through the provision of a wide array of products, including conference call systems, networking products, smartphones, and more, including proprietary products as well as products made by others.

Early last month, Valtrus Innovations Limited (f/k/a Dolya Holdco 9 Limited), an Irish NPE controlled by Key Patent Innovations Limited, received yet another batch of former HP Enterprise (HPE) patents from an Ocean Tomo, LLC affiliate—bringing the NPE’s US patent holdings to over 1,300. Meanwhile, an Alice motion filed by Alphabet (Google) in March, challenging four of the six former HPE patents that Valtrus has asserted against it, awaits a ruling.

USPTO records reflect a new assignment of former HP Enterprise (HPE) patents to Valtrus Innovations Limited (f/k/a Dolya Holdco 9 Limited), an Irish NPE controlled by Key Patent Innovations Limited. Executed in early February, the assignment closely follows Valtrus’s inaugural US patent case, filed in January of this year against Alphabet (Google), and brings the NPE’s US patent holdings to over 1,100.

Throughout 2021, Valtrus Innovations Limited (f/k/a Dolya Holdco 9 Limited) received at least 800 former HP Enterprise (HPE) patents through four assignments, one direct and the others via Ocean Tomo, LLC (as OT Patent Escrow LLC). Valtrus has now filed its first lawsuit, accusing Alphabet (Google) (3:22-cv-00066) of infringing six of those US patents through the provision of various software products, including Google Search, Google Cloud, and Google Cloud Run. Valtrus is an Irish NPE that corporate records link to a group of individuals behind several recent large portfolio acquisitions from operating companies.