In mid-July, Motion Offense, LLC filed a Western District of Texas case accusing Sprouts Farmers Market (6:19-cv-00417) of infringing two data sharing patents through the use of Dropbox Business “for, among other things, sharing and storing data”. Roughly one month later, Dropbox has responded by filing a complaint against Motion Offense in the District of Delaware (1:19-cv-01521) seeking declaratory judgments of noninfringement of the same two patents asserted in Texas. Patents naming the same inventor, Robert Paul Morris, have popped up in litigation by multiple NPEs over the past few years.
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