ComCam International, Inc. v. Abode Systems, Inc.

Three months after the last open case in its sole litigation campaign was dismissed, ComCam International Inc. has filed another round of suits. The new defendants are Abode Systems (1:17-cv-01442), Comcast (Comcast Cable Communications) (1:17-cv-01443), and Simplisafe (1:17-cv-01444), each accused of infringing a single patent, only two claims of which survived an earlier inter partes review (IPR). That patent broadly concerns a physical surveillance system with a camera that is activated once an event triggers a sensor, and the accused products are the defendants’ security systems.

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) continued to see the filing of petitions for inter partes review (IPR) against publicly traded NPEs in March 2017, including Acacia Research Corporation; Finjan Holdings, Inc.; Pendrell Corporation; TiVo Corporation (formerly known as Rovi Corporation); and Wi-LAN Inc. (WiLAN). A variety of prolific, privately held NPEs were also targeted for IPR throughout March, including Blackbird Tech LLC, General Patent Corporation, IP Edge LLC, Realtime Data LLC, and Papst Licensing GmbH & Company Kg, along with several inventors and inventor-controlled NPEs and an assortment of other plaintiffs.

ComCam International Inc. has added another case to the litigation campaign that it revived in July just three months after the sole patent-in-suit (6,975,220) emerged from inter partes review (IPR) with all but two of its original 28 claims cancelled. The newest complaint accuses Honeywell (2:16-cv-01005) of infringing claims 1, 7, and 8 through the sale of remote security systems with video surveillance; claims 7 and 8 are the two to have survived the final written decision in the IPR, which was brought by past defendant Mobotix. The ‘220 patent generally relates to a physical surveillance system with a camera that is activated once an event triggers a sensor.