Rothschild Connected Devices Innovations, LLC (RCDI), an NPE formed in December 2014 by inventor Leigh M. Rothschild, has added nine more defendants to its only litigation campaign. RCDI has asserted a single patent (8,788,090) in the campaign, this time in two groups of suits filed roughly one week apart. The first set of complaints was filed against Nexia (2:15-cv-01574), Rheem (2:15-cv-01576), SmartLabs (2:15-cv-01573), and TCP (2:15-cv-01577), while the second group targeted phone companies: AT&T (2:15-cv-01646), Sprint (2:15-cv-01643), Ting (2:15-cv-01645), T-Mobile (2:15-cv-01642), U.S. Cellular (2:15-cv-01646), and Verizon (2:15-cv-01646).