VB Assets, LLC has filed a second complaint against Amazon (1:24-cv-00839), again in the District of Delaware, alleging infringement of five more natural language processing patents through the provision its various Alexa products (identified as including “Echo, Echo Dot, Echo Show, FireTV, Alexa apps, and Alexa cloud” products). The case drops as District Judge Maryellen Noreika considers fully briefed posttrial motions following a November 2023 jury verdict in the first case filed by VB Assets. That jury awarded VB Assets $46.7M in damages, as a running royalty, for the infringement of four claims, one from each of four patents, an award that Amazon has asked the court to set aside and that VB Assets has asked be upped with a “modest enhancement” (by half) to $70.05M.