Flexiworld Technologies, Inc. v. Roku Inc. DC

Flexiworld Technologies, Inc. has added four cases against Brother (2:22-cv-02236; 2:22-cv-02237; 2:22-cv-02250; 2:22-cv-02251) and two against Lexmark (5:22-cv-00097; 5:22-cv-00098) to the litigation campaign that it launched in June 2020 with a suit against Amazon. The asserted patents are broadly directed to wireless communications or wireless printing technologies, with these new defendants accused of infringement through the provision of wireless printers and related mobile apps.

Following its second suit against Roku last month, Flexiworld Technologies, Inc. has now filed another suit against the same defendant (6:21-cv-00767) in the Western District of Texas, adding another four media streaming/casting patents to litigation and bringing the total number of patents-in-suit to 13 between the two parties. Meanwhile, Amazon has won a convenience transfer of Flexiworld’s case against it to the Western District of Washington, leaving for the new court to decide its two motions challenging Flexiworld’s standing to sue in the first place, based on Flexiworld’s prior assignment agreement with Samsung.

Litigation in the media casting/streaming campaign of Flexiworld Technologies, Inc. continues to heat up before District Judge Alan D. Albright. The first defendant, Amazon, has filed a second motion challenging Flexiworld’s standing to sue, based on a prior assignment agreement with Samsung, and Flexiworld has hit Roku (6:21-cv-00680) with a second complaint in which six more patents are asserted against the defendant, bringing the total number of patents-in-suit between the two to nine. In early June, Judge Albright handed down a claim construction order in the campaign, ascribing to each of four disputed claim terms its plain and ordinary meaning.