Altice USA, Inc. et al v. CommWorks Solutions, LLC DC

In a new Western District of Texas complaint, CommWorks Solutions, LLC, a plaintiff associated with IPInvestments Group LLC (d/b/a IPinvestments Group), has accused Frontier Communications (6:22-cv-01268) of infringing eight patents broadly directed to wireless communications. The defendant is targeted over the provision or use of various networking products (e.g., access points, gateways, routers, and related software), including certain Ciena and Juniper Networks-branded products.

CommWorks Solutions, LLC, a plaintiff associated with IPInvestments Group LLC (d/b/a IPinvestments Group), has expanded its first litigation campaign with a Western District of Texas suit against Charter Communications (Spectrum Gulf Coast) (6:22-cv-00156). The complaint targets the provision and/or use of various networking hardware and software products, several of which include devices manufactured by Ciena, Commscope (ARRIS), or Juniper Networks. Sixteen patents, each acquired from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV), have been asserted in the campaign so far, with six at issue in CommWorks’s latest complaint.

Altice, together with its subsidiary CSC Holdings, has filed three complaints in the District of Delaware, one each against CommWorks Solutions, LLC (1:21-cv-01323); DataCloud Technologies, LLC (1:21-cv-01321); and DigiMedia Tech, LLC (1:21-cv-01322), all associated with Georgia patent monetization firm IPInvestments Group LLC (d/b/a IPinvestments Group). The complaints seek declaratory judgments of noninfringement and invalidity of various patents that the named NPEs acquired from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV) and have apparently asserted via letters sent over the course of the last 18 months. The NPEs are among several to have launched litigation from thousands of US assets flowing out of IV over the past couple of years.

CommWorks Solutions, LLC, a plaintiff associated with IP Investments Group LLC (d/b/a IPinvestments Group), has added Western Distrirct of Texas cases against Comcast (6:21-cv-00366) and JAB Wireless (Skybeam) (6:21-cv-00368) to the litigation campaign begun last May. The complaints target certain networking hardware and software products, including those of others not named as defendants: Ciena and Juniper Networks (for Comcast) or TP-Link and ZTE (for JAB). Eleven patents, acquired from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV), have been asserted in the campaign so far, with two new to the campaign bringing the number up from nine.