In late March, Hydro Net LLC, an IP Edge LLC plaintiff, whipped off another round in one of its litigation campaigns over assets from the 30-patent portfolio that the NPE picked up from Linex Technologies, Inc. in September 2018. The latest defendants are Barracuda Networks (1:21-cv-00478), BlackBerry (1:21-cv-02773), Hon Hai Precision Industry (Sharp) (1:21-cv-02780), KVH Industries (1:21-cv-00480), and Yulong Computer (Coolpad Technologies) (1:21-cv-00481), each accused of infringement through the provision of devices (e.g., firewalls, smartphones, and cellular base stations) that support LTE-FDD cellular networking and wireless tethering capabilities (Coolpad) or certain Wi-Fi protocols (802.11a/b/g/n/ac for Barracuda and 802.11b/g/n for BlackBerry, KVH, and Sharp).
