This past week, Entropic Communications, LLC fired off a set of new complaints targeting existing defendants Charter Communications (2:22-cv-00050, 2:22-cv-00051, 2:22-cv-00052) in the Eastern District of Texas and DISH Network (2:23-cv-01043) in the Central District of California; and two apiece targeting new defendants Comcast (2:22-cv-01048, 2:22-cv-01050) and Cox Communications (2:22-cv-01047, 2:22-cv-01049), all in the Central District of California as well. The latter forum is where Eastern District of Texas Judge Rodney Gilstrap already (last October) transferred the first suits in this campaign, filed separately in March 2022 against AT&T (DirecTV) and DISH. The suits are consolidated there, with the case against AT&T as lead, the expanded campaign now concerning more than 20 patents developed by either Entropic Communications Inc. (ECI, characterized by the plaintiff as its predecessor-in-interest “as to the patents-in-suit”) or MaxLinear (which acquired ECI in 2015).