In a new complaint filed in the Central District of California against Dell (8:22-cv-02312), Longitude Licensing Limited pleads a series of attempts to engage third party Western Digital in licensing negotiations. After a related arbitration proceeding “was dismissed on jurisdictional grounds”, the plaintiff turned to Dell, Longitude Licensing indicating that it sent a September 2022 letter representing that its “normal approach” would be to “engage with, and license, suppliers such as Western Digital rather than their customers” but because “Western Digital has refused to engage in any licensing discussions”, it began “contacting Western Digital customers who are selling products that infringe Longitude patents”. The new complaint has now followed, Longitude alleging infringement of three patents through the provision of laptops and tablets that incorporate certain Western Digital-branded memory devices (i.e., solid state drives and memory chips).