Apex Beam Technologies LLC has filed its first lawsuit, accusing TCL (TCT Mobile) (2:21-cv-00438) of infringing five wireless communications patents through the provision of certain 5G mobile handsets and tablets. The Texas plaintiff received the patents, together with a handful of additional US patents, as well as multiple international assets, in an assignment dated in October 2021, about a week after Apex Beam was formed, from a Shanghai-based “IP-centric startup company”.