Digi Portal LLC v. Uber Technologies, Inc.

Uber (1:21-cv-00918) has also been sued by Digi Portal LLC, an apparent IP Edge LLC plaintiff, over a family of five patents generally related to delivering customized webpages to Internet users. Uber is accused of infringement through the provision of its website, with features for delivering customized webpages and targeted advertisements to users based on collected information (e.g., demographics or location data). The suit comes as District Judge Maryellen Noreika has denied multiple concurrent motions challenging claims from the five patent under Alice, noting that “it is not an efficient use of the Court’s time to address the patent eligibility of more than seventy claims from the asserted patents—even with purportedly representative groupings—at the motion to dismiss stage, particularly where the parties dispute whether those claims are representative”.

Eureka Database Solutions, LLC, an entity associated with Texas monetization and advisory firm Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC, has kept alive its litigation campaign over patents from a portfolio picked up in September 2017 from Excalibur IP, LLC. The latest defendant is NICE (Nexidia) (6:20-cv-00197), accused of infringing three of those patents—generally related to annotating and searching multimedia data—through the provision of multimedia search tools, including Nexidia Audio Discovery, Nexidia Search, and Audiofinder. Excalibur IP is a subsidiary of Altaba Inc. (the company formerly known as Yahoo, Inc. prior to the sale of Yahoo!’s operating businesses to Verizon in 2017); its portfolio has seen several divestitures since late 2017, including to NPEs.