The Delaware case that ASSA ABLOY (Assa Abloy Americas Residential) (AAA Residential) (1:23-cv-00918) filed against Multimodal LLC last month has recently been assigned to Chief Judge Colm F. Connolly. The complaint seeks a declaratory judgment of noninfringement of a single patent generally related to actuating a lock if a scanned object matches a “reference texture”; it characterizes a June 2023 case that Multimodal filed against ASSA ABLOY (now dismissed without prejudice) as “the Wrongly-Venued Texas Litigation” and a June case that Multimodal filed against Spectrum Brands (still active) as “the Wrongly-Filed Wisconsin Litigation”. The parties have yet to respond to the standing orders in force in Judge Connolly’s courtroom, but plaintiffs with ties to Multimodal have done so, indicating that they are backed by third-party litigation funding.