Longitude Licensing Continues Asserting Former Elpida and Former Seiko Epson Patents
So far this year, Longitude Licensing Limited has expanded its litigation targeting customers of Western Digital, initiated two separate additional campaigns, and been added to a case brought by an apparent exclusive licensee. Most recently, the subsidiary of patent advisory firm IPValue Management (d/b/a IPValue), itself held by Vector Capital Corporation, has sued Alphabet (Google) (3:23-cv-03046), targeting the provision of certain image processing tools, including Real Tone, Portrait Mode, Face Unblur, and more, within Pixel smartphones and tablets, as well as its “photo-related applications,” including Google Photos and Snapseed. Before that, in April 2023, Longitude Licensing sued Hon Hai Precision Industry (Sharp) (2:23-cv-00165) over the provision of liquid crystal display (LCD) devices, panels, and/or modules incorporated into certain TVs, monitors, notebook computers, smartphones, tablets, and vehicle infotainment displays, that complaint flagging accused LCD products incorporated into vehicles from BMW, Ford, Mazda, and Toyota; monitors from Sharp itself; smartphones from Sony; tablets from Microsoft; and TVs from LG Electronics (LGE) and VIZIO.
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