Last month, inventor-controlled Charge Fusion Technologies, LLC sued Tesla (6:21-cv-01078) over the provision of the Tesla Model 3, Model S, Model X, Model Y, and Roadster, targeting features related to electric charging (including Trip Planner and “Dog Mode”). Asserted in the Western District of Texas complaint is a family of three patents broadly directed to electric vehicle charging. Charge Fusion alleges that Tesla has been on notice of the first of those patents as early as its issue date, based on Tesla’s amendments to draft claims in one of its own patent applications, which had been subject to a non-final office action rejecting them as anticipated by that Charge Fusion patent.