SOVEREIGN PEAK VENTURES, LLC, v. LG ELECTRONICS, INC. et al DC

Sovereign Peak Ventures, LLC (SPV) has filed three Western District of Texas lawsuits against HP (6:22-cv-00917, 6:22-cv-00918, 6:22-cv-00919) over subsets of former Panasonic patents, targeting across the cases the provision of devices that support Wi-Fi Direct, the H.265/HEVC codec, and certain LTE networking capabilities via modems provided by Intel and Qualcomm. This new litigation follows last week’s dismissal with prejudice, in light of a settlement, of a trio of suits brought by the Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC plaintiff against ASUSTek this past February, as well as last week’s stay of a pair of cases against Acer, to facilitate settlement, filed last December.

Three of the four “peak ventures” of Texas monetization firm Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC, those with already active campaigns, have filed additional litigation in the first couple of weeks of April, with Sovereign Peak Ventures, LLC (SPV) hitting LG Electronics (LGE) (2:20-cv-00107, 2:20-cv-00108, 2:20-cv-00109) over patents from a large portfolio of former Panasonic assets. That litigation follows new suits from Monument Peak Ventures, LLC (MPV), hitting Hitachi over patents from a large portfolio of former Kodak assets, and Vista Peak Ventures LLC (VPV), hitting various defendants held by the Chinese Government (Nanjing, TPV) over patents from a large portfolio of former NEC assets. Dominion received each of these portfolios from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV), with which the firm has had a deepening relationship. Dominion’s fourth “peak venture”, Liberty Peak Ventures, LLC (LPV), in receipt of a large portfolio of former American Express patents, has yet to assert any of those patents in litigation.