Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Excelitas Technologies Corp.

Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. has filed another round of cases in its long-running litigation over former Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV) patents, suing HP (6:22-cv-00040), TI (6:22-cv-00047), Thorlabs (6:22-cv-00053), Qualcomm (6:22-cv-00046), and Verizon (6:22-cv-00043) in the Western District of Texas; Lenovo (1:22-cv-00051), Lionsgate (Epix) (1:22-cv-00050), Phytec (1:22-cv-00054), and Snap (1:22-cv-00058) in the District of Delaware; and L.S. Starrett (1:22-cv-00149) in the Northern District of Georgia. The 13 patents-in-suit are among over 50 assets (received either directly or indirectly from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV)) that the plaintiff has asserted against over 185 defendants since May 2019; the defendants are accused of infringement through the provision of a wide array of products, including cameras, smartphones, tablets, scanners, processors, and more.

Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. has hit 2022 ground running with five new suits filed in its longest running litigation campaign. So far this month, the NPE has sued Excelitas Technologies (1:22-cv-00011), Illunis (1:22-cv-00012), MGM (1:22-cv-00014), and Novantas (1:22-cv-00016) in the District of Delaware and Generac (Ecobee) (6:22-cv-00018) in the Western District of Texas. The plaintiff asserts three patents in overlapping sets, with the defendants accused of infringement through the provision of a wide variety of products, including barcode scanners and cameras. Since launching this, its first litigation campaign, in May 2019, Cedar Lane has sued over 175 defendants and asserted a total of 50 patents (each received either directly or indirectly from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV)).