WhatsApp Files Declaratory Judgment Action Against AGIS Software’s Patents
In conjunction with a motion to dismiss its January 2021 district court case for improper venue, Facebook subsidiary WhatsApp (3:21-cv-03076) has filed a Northern District of California complaint against AGIS Holdings Inc. subsidiary AGIS Software Development LLC (ASD), seeking declaratory judgments of noninfringement for six cellular communications patents through its provision of the WhatsApp Messenger platform. Since launching its sole litigation campaign in May 2014, AGIS Holdings, through its controlled entities, has sued more than ten defendants over various hardware and software products, with features such as location sharing, mobile communications, and lost device tracking at issue.
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