Retrospection Marketing LLC v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc DC

IPValuation Partners LLC (d/b/a IPVal) plaintiff Recog IP LLC has taken over the campaign of fellow IPVal entities Retrospection Marketing LLC, which kicked litigation off in April 2016, and Recall Marketing LLC, which then took over in May 2018. The latest defendant is Dick’s Sporting Goods (6:21-cv-00977), sued in the Western District of Texas. Asserted is a single patent, originating with Siemens, generally related to tracking and displaying information about the pages visited on a particular website (and then discarding that information upon departure). Infringement allegations against Dick’s Sporting Goods mirror those against earlier defendants, focusing the “recently viewed items” feature of its e-commerce website.

Amid a flurry of NPE creation and patent transfers, two affiliates of IP Valuation Partners LLC (IPVal) have added cases to campaigns launched earlier this year. Aurelian IP Management, LLC has filed suit against Fair Isaac (2:16-cv-01063), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) (2:16-cv-01064), and Oracle (2:16-cv-01065), accusing each of infringing a single patent (6,272,495) generally related to processing free-form data. The managing member of Aurelian IP is IPVal principal, Jonathan Szarzynski, whose colleague Adam Baumli is identified as the managing member of Retrospection Marketing LLC, the other affiliate that just added more cases, on the same day, to its own campaign. Retrospection Marketing filed suit against Best Buy (2:16-cv-01067), Kohl’s (2:16-cv-01068), and Wal-Mart (2:16-cv-01069), asserting the single patent-in-campaign (7,296,062), generally related to the display of information through a network, against the retailers’ e-commerce websites.