Genaville LLC v. Systemax, Inc. DC

Prolific patent monetization firm IP Edge LLC shows no signs of slowing down in the New Year, with affiliated NPEs filing another round of cases in the first week of January. Ruby Sands LLC has added new lawsuits to its troubled mobile banking campaign, while Packet Tread LLC and Cypaleo LLC have continued to expand their respective communications campaigns. These latest cases follow a surge of filings by other IP Edge affiliates in the final months of 2016.

Genaville LLC’s second round of litigation is no smaller than its first, adding 25 suits to the original 25 filed on May 28. Newly named defendants include Abercromie & Fitch, Container Store, Gilt Groupe, Home Depot, NFL, Ralph Lauren, and Systemax. Similar to the original suits, the new cases assert a single patent, 5,999,927, which concerns searching electronic documents in response to a search query. The patent-in-suit was developed by Xerox and assigned to Genaville in May 2015. Genaville’s first suits in May kicked off several campaigns asserting former Xerox patents. Other NPEs asserting patents acquired from Xerox include Graham Springs, Loramax, and Red Anvil.