SmartWatch Mobileconcepts LLC began its sole litigation campaign last June when it filed separate complaints against Apple, Philips, Qualcomm, and Samsung in the Western District of Texas and against Casio in the Southern District of New York. Throughout, the plaintiff targeted certain authentication features of wearables and/or related software products with a single patent generally related to allowing access to a “secured electronic system” after authenticating a user through biometric information obtained from a wearable device. Those suits have all ended, after little substantive litigation, and SmartWatch has now fired off another round, this one entirely in West Texas, suing Alphabet (Google) (6:23-cv-00398), Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile) (6:23-cv-00400), Seiko Epson (Epson America) (6:23-cv-00397), and Tanager (Timex) (6:23-cv-00399) over the same patent.
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