Eastern District of Texas Judges Rodney Gilstrap and Robert W. Schroeder III have each denied a motion to effect alternative service filed by Network System Technologies LLC (NST), Judge Gilstrap’s in a case filed against Lenovo, OnePlus, and Samsung, the motion directed at Lenovo, a Chinese defendant, and Judge Schroeder’s in a case filed against Ford, TI, and Volkswagen (including Audi), that motion directed at Volkswagen and Audi, both German defendants. In response, NST has dismissed claims against those foreign defendants, without prejudice, and has filed a new, standalone case against Lenovo (2:23-cv-00167), again accusing the defendant of infringing the same six former Philips patents through the provision of products that allegedly contain Qualcomm Snapdragon system-on-chips (SoCs).