A status hearing is set for this week before Northern District of Illinois Judge Matthew F. Kennelly in the case that Kove IO, Inc. filed against Amazon (Amazon Web Services) back in December 2018. A stay in light of certain ex parte reexams (EPRs), filed by Amazon, was lifted last fall, since which time that docket has experienced a furious pelting largely with discovery disputes, most of them under at least partial seal, but also with briefs for and against a motion for supplemental claim construction in light of what happened in those EPRs. Meanwhile, this past week, Kove IO filed a second Northern District of Illinois case, this one accusing Alphabet (Google) (1:23-cv-04244) of infringing the same three data storage and retrieval patents, which have now survived a set of Alice challenges, one petition for inter partes review (IPR), and multiple EPRs—although, as Amazon has just apprised the court, the USPTO is just now responding to a second round of such requests.