Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Nanonets Inc.

Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. has expanded its first litigation campaign that it launched in May 2019 with March suits against Anker (Fantasia Trading) (6:21-cv-00195), AT&T (6:21-cv-00251), Best Western (6:21-cv-00247), Booking Holdings (6:21-cv-00221), Choice Hotels (6:21-cv-00246), Costco (6:21-cv-00232), Drury Hotels (6:21-cv-00235), Expedia (6:21-cv-00245), Extended Stay (6:21-cv-00236), Hilton (6:21-cv-00237), Hyatt (6:21-cv-00248), Jinjiang (Radisson Hospitality) (6:21-cv-00250), Marriott (6:21-cv-00234), NVIDIA (6:21-cv-00252), and Travelzoo (6:21-cv-00233) in the Western District of Texas; Airbnb (Hotel Tonight) (1:21-cv-00338) and Leviton Manufacturing (1:21-cv-00363) in the District of Delaware; and Azpen Innovation (2:21-cv-00078) in the Eastern District of Texas. The plaintiff asserts six patents in overlapping sets, one of which is new to litigation; the defendants are targeted over the provision of a wide variety of products and services, including e-commerce websites, mobile apps, security cameras, tablets, and more. Over 95 defendants have now been sued in this campaign, while the number of asserted patents (each received either directly or indirectly from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV)) has hit 40.

Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. has added Lenovo (6:21-cv-00021) as a defendant to its longest running litigation campaign over former Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV) patents. Sued in the Western District of Texas, the defendant is accused of infringing seven patents, with infringement allegations targeting the provision of certain Lenovo-branded tablets and Motorola-branded smartphones. The number of defendants in this campaign is nearing 80, while the number of asserted patents approaches 40.

In November, Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. added three defendants to its longest running litigation campaign over former Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV) patents, suing Nanonets (1:20-cv-01534) in the District of Delaware, Sonim Technologies (6:20-cv-01047) in the Western District of Texas, and Webfurther (8:20-cv-02176) in the Central District of California. Nanonets and Webfurther are each accused of infringing a single patent through their respective content moderation services, while Sonim Technologies is accused of infringing five patents through smartphones with certain image capture and processing capabilities. The number of defendants in this campaign is approaching 75, while the number of patents asserted nears 40.

Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. continues to add defendants to its earliest, and largest, campaign, begun in May 2019 and quickly growing to hit almost 70 defendants with overlapping subsets of nearly 40 former Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV) patents. The newest defendants, sued so far in October, are Deezer (1:20-cv-03037), LiveXLive (1:20-cv-01370), and ViacomCBS (1:20-cv-06021), over the provision of music streaming services, and DISH Network (6:20-cv-00947) and Disney (6:20-cv-00949), over the provision of media streaming services as well as related apps and products. While streaming services are the focus of these latest complaints, at its core, this campaign has targeted image capture and editing (by various devices), also hitting cable boxes, cloud-based conferencing, and flexible OLED displays along the way.