Samoa Investments, LP

Dynamic Hosting Company LLC (DHC) has added 23 new defendants to its campaign, including Amazon, Apple, ASUS, BlackBerry, HTC, Huawei, LG Electronics, Microsoft, Pantech, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, T-Mobile, Verizon (Cellco), and ZTE. DHC’s complaints target defendants’ mobile phones with a visual voicemail application that connects over cellular networks. The NPE alleges that the phones infringe two patents related to fax-over-IP (FoIP) with time-based polling (5,826,026, 6,216,156).

Dynamic Hosting Company LLC (DHC) filed its first round of litigation, naming 11 defendants: Brother International, Canon, Eastman Kodak, Epson, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Konica Minolta, Lantronix, Oki Data, and Xerox. The suits assert two patents from the same family that both relate to fax-over-IP (FoIP) with time-based polling (5,826,026, 6,216,156). The asserted patents have not been previously litigated. Google’s Cloud Print service is at issue in each suit, and the service along with printers manufactured by defendants that are compatible with the service are accused of infringing the asserted patents.