TQP Development [NPE] filed suit against Lightspeed Trading, alleging that Lightspeed Trading’s websites infringe a patent related to encrypted data transmission.  TQP, founded by Erich Spangenberg (of IP Nav), has filed over 40 previous suits since December 2008 against more than 100 defendants including Dell, Google, LinkedIn, Salesforce, Skype, and Sony. More than 30 suits of those suits were filed in 2012 alone.  8/9, Eastern District of Texas, assigned to Judge Michael H. Schneider and referred to Magistrate Judge Caroline Craven, 2:2012cv00432.