As part of its targeted advertising campaign, AlmondNet, Inc. and its subsidiary Intent IQ, LLC sued Microsoft in August 2021 in the Western District of Texas, adding a case there against Microsoft and its subsidiary Xandr in November 2022. Earlier this year, the court consolidated the two actions in response to an agreement by which the number of asserted patents across the combined action would be reduced to four. Now, the plaintiff pair has accused Microsoft subsidiary LinkedIn (1:23-cv-01373) of infringing 11 patents, including the same four remaining in suit against Microsoft and Xandr, but doing so in Delaware.