Network Architecture Innovations LLC v. Praestone Services Ltd. DC

Empire IP LLC affiliate Environment Sensor Systems LLC has filed two new complaints in its four-month-old litigation campaign, targeting Link 4 (2:16-cv-00897) and Swarm Technologies (2:16-cv-00898), following two suits earlier this month, one against HisGadget (2:16-cv-00857) and the other against Home Depot and Soil IQ (2:16-cv-00848). Meanwhile, fellow Empire affiliate Network Architecture Innovations LLC has resumed its own campaign after a nine-month hiatus, filing complaints against 2169061 Ontario (d/b/a CamFuze) (2:16-cv-00913), CC Network (2:16-cv-00914), Shoshoro (2:16-cv-00915), Spider Media (2:16-cv-00917), Youngtek Solutions (2:16-cv-00916), WebPower (2:16-cv-00912). This round of suits is the NPE’s first since its last wave of filings in November 2015.

Network Architecture Innovations LLC, an affiliate of Empire IP LLC, added ten defendants late in 2015 to a litigation campaign that it launched in June. The complaints assert a single patent (5,974,451) generally related to a web server that adds a “bulletin” (e.g. an advertisement) to information sent from a Wide Area Network (WAN) to a computer “external” to that network. Thus far the NPE has targeted companies that provide live media streaming services via webcams in the adult Internet entertainment market.