Last year, SoundClear Technologies LLC filed a pair of cases against each of Alphabet (Google) (2:24-cv-00321, 3:24-cv-00540) and Amazon (2:24-cv-00320, 1:24-cv-01283) in the Eastern District of Virginia over patents from a portfolio received from JVCKenwood. In one of the two cases against Amazon, District Judge Anthony J. Trenga granted a motion to dismiss based on Alice challenges to the claims of the three patents asserted. In an unusual turnaround, however, the court granted SoundClear’s motion to alter the corresponding judgment, allowing SoundClear to file an amended complaint to add deposition testimony from an Amazon witness that SoundClear contends changes the patent eligibility analysis, at least at the pleadings stage. Both defendants have also filed motions to transfer for convenience, to the Northern District of California, in response to which SoundClear has identified its president and its CTO.