Broadcom’s chipsets are accused of infringing a patent asserted by Growing Technology, an NPE that has not previously filed assertion litigation. The patent-in-suit relates to encoding video data and was developed by Academic Sinica (7,242,812). According to the complaint Growing Technology is the current owner of the asserted patent but the date of assignment has not been recorded with the USPTO. Growing Technology is a new entity, created in May 2014, and does not appear to be associated with any other known NPEs. 5/30, Eastern District of Texas, 2:14cv00649
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