WSOU Investments, LLC v. Dell Technologies Inc. et al DC

In late November, WSOU Investments, LLC (d/b/a Brazos Licensing and Development) expanded one of its more than 100 litigation campaigns with a suit against Arista Networks (6:20-cv-01083) in the Western District of Texas. The NPE accuses the defendant of infringing three former Nokia (Alcatel-Lucent) patents, broadly directed to various aspects of network security and traffic management, through the provision of various networking products. WSOU previously hit Dell (EMC) (in May 2020) and HP Enterprise (HPE) (August 2020) over separate patents from the same family to which one of the three patents-in-suit belongs.

Following July suits filed against Alphabet (Google), WSOU Investments, LLC (d/b/a Brazos Licensing and Development) has targeted HP Enterprise (HPE) with six new Western District of Texas suits (6:20-cv-00725, 6:20-cv-00726, 6:20-cv-00727, 6:20-cv-00728, 6:20-cv-00729, 6:20-cv-00730). As has been its practice, WSOU asserts in each complaint a single patent received from Nokia (including Alcatel-Lucent) since 2017. Together, the six new suits target a range of networking hardware and software provided by HPE, which, in addition to Google, joins Dell (EMC), Huawei, Microsoft, and ZTE as defendants in WSOU’s numerous recent campaigns.

Following March suits against Huawei and ZTE and April suits against Microsoft, WSOU Investments, LLC has followed the same pattern with its May litigation, this time filing ten separate cases against Dell and its subsidiaries EMC and VMware (6:20-cv-00403; 6:20-cv-00404; 6:20-cv-00406; 6:20-cv-00407; 6:20-cv-00408; 6:20-cv-00409; 6:20-cv-00410; 6:20-cv-00412; 6:20-cv-00417; 6:20-cv-00418) in the Western District of Texas. In each complaint, WSOU asserts a single patent from a portfolio of assets received from Nokia (including Alcatel-Lucent) throughout 2017. Together, the ten new suits target a range of Dell networking products.