Instead of Joining “750 Large International Corporations” to License, Three Targets Have Now Filed DJ Complaints

Brotherhood Insurance (1:25-cv-00273) has filed a Northern District of Indiana complaint seeking declaratory judgments of noninfringement, invalidity, and unenforceability of a patent held by Texas entity Aloft Media, LLC. The pleading also names as defendants George Andrew Gordon, Aloft Media’s manager; George Street Partners, Aloft Media’s licensing agent, which allegedly “operates as Aloft Media’s de facto licensing department”; and Todd Schmidt, George Street’s president. Brotherhood’s complaint also pleads a claim for violation of Indiana’s Bad Faith Asserts of Patent Infringement Act. It is now the third in this campaign to respond with a declaratory judgment action after the receipt of a notice letter, Schaefer Systems having filed a DJ complaint in September 2022 in the Western District of North Carolina (also pleading a violation of that state’s Abusive Patent Assertion Act (APAA)) and The Morse Group, a DJ complaint in the Northern District of Illinois this past April.