NEOMEDIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. v. AIRCLIC INC. DC

NeoMedia Technologies, Inc. recently reported to the SEC that it had been notified of an alleged default on terms and conditions made to the publicly traded company, and that a large creditor, YA Global Investments LP (f/k/a Cornell Capital Partners LP), had demanded immediate payment of over $43M in principal and interest. It appears that NeoMedia was unable to repay the amount, YA Global triggered a June 29, 2016 auction of NeoMedia’s patent portfolio, which had been used as collateral for the loan, and a new YA Global affiliate, NM, LLC (formed in Delaware the day before) won the auction, taking ownership of the patents. Since then, NM is now listed on the copyright line for NeoMedia’s website, and the new entity has filed three suits asserting two of those patents (6,199,048; 8,131,597), which generally relate to the use of QR codes, one each against Dick’s Sporting Goods (1:16-cv-00789), Quickrete Companies (1:16-cv-00814), and TJX Companies (1:16-cv-00813). Both patents-in-suit expired in October 2015 and belong to a portfolio that NeoMedia began asserting well over a decade ago.