Monument Peak Ventures Sues Xerox in East Texas as Alice Appeal Proceeds in Parallel
On the same day that Xerox’s attempt to have their dispute adjudicated in the Western District of New York resulted in a transfer, Monument Peak Ventures, LLC (MPV) filed an affirmative case (2:21-cv-00345) against the company in the Eastern District of Texas. That suit concerns six former Eastman Kodak patents, asserted against various printers and scanners and related software over features primarily related to print management, document image processing, layout templates, and adjustable touchscreen displays. Xerox immediately dismissed the transferred case, which concerned a different subset of MPV’s portfolio, all of this activity occurring as the Federal Circuit considers MPV’s appeal from a final judgment from a Central District of California case, filed in November 2019 against Toshiba, invalidating another subset of those patents under Alice.