Last November, Maxell sued Lenovo (Motorola Mobility) in the Western District of Texas. While threshold disputes in that case ramped up—over jurisdiction and venue as to both Motorola Mobility and a US Lenovo subsidiary and over service as to the ultimate Lenovo parent (a Chinese entity)—(1) Motorola Mobility, alone, filed a declaratory judgment action in the Northern District of Illinois over the eight Maxell patents at issue in West Texas, (2) Maxell amended its West Texas complaint to swap out one of those patents, and (3) Motorola Mobility amended its own complaint to match. Now, Maxell has hit the same three entities (the Chinese Lenovo parent, the US Lenovo sub, and Motorola Mobility) in a second original complaint (6:22-cv-00334), this one reasserting the swapped out patent, together with five new ones, back in the Western District of Texas. Needless to say, this dispute is expanding.