Among Latest Cases over Former IV Patents, DataCloud Files a “Notification of Affiliates” That Names No Individual Owners
DataCloud Technologies, LLC, an entity associated with Georgia monetization firm IPInvestments Group LLC, has added to its sole litigation campaign suits against Designer Brands (2:25-cv-00084) in the Eastern District of Texas, Etsy (1:25-cv-00120) in the District of Delaware, and OTTO (Euromarket Designs (d/b/a Crate & Barrel)) (1:25-cv-00847) in the Northern District of Illinois. The three asserted patents, each received from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV), are broadly directed to either file management or network communications. Northern District of Illinois Local Rules require litigants such as DataCloud to identify “any entity or individual owning, directly or indirectly (through ownership of one or more other entities), 5% or more of a party”; DataCloud’s “Notification of Affiliates”, signed by Rozier Hardt McDonough PLLC, does not appear to comply with the applicable local rule, the notification suggesting that no individual at all fits this description.
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