Rothschild Broadcast Distribution Systems, LLC v. Sony Electronics, Inc. d/b/a Sony Corporation of America et al DC

Rothschild Broadcast Distribution Systems, LLC (RBDS), one of many NPEs controlled by prolific inventor and frequent plaintiff Leigh M. Rothschild, has continued its sole litigation campaign, launched in March 2015, into 2021, with suits against Schoology (7:21-cv-04250), Verizon (7:21-cv-04322), and ViacomCBS (Showtime Networks) (7:21-cv-04306) in the Southern District of New York. The plaintiff asserts a single patent generally related to the storage of broadcast content, with infringement allegations targeting features related to recording and streaming media content in the defendants’ respective media platforms.

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.

Now that all 12 of its 2015 cases have been dismissed, most with prejudice, and some following settlements, Rothschild Broadcast Distribution Systems, LLC (RBDS) has refreshed its streaming media campaign with six new filings. The NPE sued AT&T (2:16-cv-00385) on April 8 and Barnes & Noble (2:16-cv-00402), Plex (2:16-cv-00404), Rhapsody (2:16-cv-00403), Sony (2:16-cv-00405), and Spotify (2:16-cv-00406) on April 13. As in its previous cases, including those filed against Comcast, Crunchyroll, Vimeo, and VUDU, RBDS accuses the defendants of infringing a single patent (8,856,221) that generally concerns storage of broadcast content.