Virtual Creative Artists, LLC (VCA) has filed a case against Pinterest (1:23-cv-04238) in the Northern District of Illinois, after June dismissals with prejudice in cases that the plaintiff has filed separately against Alphabet (Google), in the Western District of Texas, and Liberty Media (Pandora), also in the Northern District of Illinois. Three patents generally related to an “electronic media submissions database”—including the one for which the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial this past March (IPR2022-01263)—are asserted in this latest complaint. Before the case against it was dismissed, Google had filed a motion to dismiss the other two patents-in-campaign as ineligibly directed to the abstract idea of “soliciting ideas from individuals and allowing people to vote on them”.