Location Services IP, LLC v. Nokia Corporation et al

The number of defendants in the sole litigation campaign of Location Services IP, LLC (LSI) has approached 50, after the NPE filed four new complaints, one each against Chick-Fil-A (2:16-cv-01177), Dunkin’ Donuts (2:16-cv-01178), GasBuddy (2:16-cv-01179), and 7-Eleven (2:16-cv-01176). Three patents (6,202,023; 6,356,834; 8,935,220) generally related to location-based mapping services, with the accused products throughout the campaign having been location-aware mobile apps and websites with location-mapping features.

Location Services IP, LLC (LSI) has added Comcast, Groupon, Priceline.com, McDonald’s, and Shopkick to a campaign targeting location-aware mobile apps and websites with location-mapping features (e.g. store locator services). Since launching this litigation campaign in February 2015, LSI has sued 24 companies over a group of related patents that generally concern location-based mapping services (5,839,088; 6,047,236; 6,202,023; 6,356,834; 8,935,220). Every case has involved at least three of the patents-in-campaign; some cases, e.g. those against AT&T, Foursquare, Microsoft, and Yahoo, have involved all five. Defendants include retailers, restaurants, banks, ride-share operators, wireless carriers, crowd-sourcing websites, and companies that offer mapping applications.

Location Services IP, LLC cases continue to trickle in slowly, with a single new suit against Nokia. The entity began filing litigation in February 2015 and has since filed ten suits, all of which assert four patents (5,839,088, 6,202,023, 6,356,834, 8,935,220). The patents relate to location based services and are part of a family of 13 patents owned by Location Services. The new complaint against Nokia accuses apps with built-in location tracking of infringing the patents-in-suit.