Western District of Texas Judge Alan D. Albright has for the third time denied a sealed motion challenging the standing of plaintiff UNM Rainforest Innovations (f/k/a STC.UNM) (UNMRI) to sue over former Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) patents acquired from Sino Matrix Technology in August 2018. This repeat denial—docketed again through a text order without accompanying memorandum—comes in a case that UNMRI filed in February 2020 against ASUSTek, but virtually the whole campaign, which includes open suits against D-Link, TP-Link, and Unizyx (ZyXEL), sat stalled waiting for the standing issue to resolve. Perhaps encouraged by Judge Albright’s third denial, UNMRI just marked a couple of turns in the campaign, to the automotive sector and away from the Western District of Texas, adding an Eastern District of Texas case against Toyota (2:23-cv-00424).
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