Rothschild Broadcast Distribution Systems, LLC v. Univision Communications Inc

Rothschild Broadcast Distribution Systems, LLC (RBDS), an affiliate of prolific inventor and frequent plaintiff Leigh M. Rothschild, has extended into 2019 a campaign begun back in March 2015, adding April suits filed against Alphabet (Nest Labs) (3:19-cv-01913), Amcrest Industries (4:19-cv-01211), Honeywell (1:19-cv-00703), and Manything Systems (3:19-cv-01917) to cases brought against D-Link Systems, Mubi, Y-Cam Solutions, and Zmodo in February of this year. These new complaints continue RBDS’s recent infringement focus on the provision of smart home systems, specifically those offering storage of security video footage. The sole patent-in-suit broadly relates to the storage of broadcast content.

Rothschild Broadcast Distribution Systems, LLC (RBDS), an affiliate of prolific inventor and frequent plaintiff Leigh M. Rothschild, has added its first 2018 cases to the campaign that it began back in March 2015. The new defendants are APX Group (Vivint) (2:18-cv-00102) and Link Interactive (1:18-cv-00014), sued in the District of Utah, and Frontpoint Security Solutions (1:18-cv-00187), sued in the District of Delaware. The sole patent patent-in-campaign broadly relates to the storage of broadcast content, with the latest infringement accusations focused on the provision of smart home systems, specifically those offering storage of security video footage.

Over the past few weeks, inventor and frequent plaintiff Leigh M. Rothschild has filed new rounds of cases through three of his existing subsidiaries—Geographic Location Services, LLC (GLS); Rothschild Broadcast Distribution Systems, LLC (RBDS); and Symbology Innovations, LLC. On November 14, he also created two more entities in Texas (Location Based Services, LLC and Rothschild Biometric Systems, LLC), continuing a general trend over the last year of moving his litigation from elsewhere (principally Delaware and Florida) to the Eastern District of Texas.

Rothschild Broadcast Distribution Systems, LLC (RBDS) has added another case to its sole litigation campaign, suing Comcast for the second time over the same patent (8,856,221), this time through subsidiary Fandango (2:16-cv-00934). The ‘221 patent generally relates to the storage of broadcast content, and FandangoNow is the accused product. The new case comes as five of the six cases that RBDS filed earlier in 2016 have either been dismissed or are about to be.

A new entity run by Leigh Rothschild, Rothschild Broadcast Distribution Systems, LLC (RBDS), filed its first round of litigation against Comcast, Crunchyroll, Discovery Communications, NGC Network, Univision,UStream, VBrick, Vimeo, VUDU, and Wistia. The entity is asserting one patent concerning cloud-based media storage and delivery (8,856,221). Like most patents asserted by Rothschild-related entities, Leigh Rothschild is the sole inventor of the patent-in-suit. Defendants’ media streaming services are accused of infringing the asserted patent. RPX reviewed the patent-in-suit as part of an open market opportunity in November 2014 (Ariel Innovations 2 – OMA).