IPVal’s Complex Memory Campaign, in Which IV Retains an Interest, Sees Its Third 2018 Case

Last year’s suits winding down, Complex Memory LLC, an affiliate of Texas monetization firm IPValuation Partners LLC (d/b/a IPVal), has added another suit in 2018. The NPE accuses STMicro (1:18-cv-06255) of infringing four of the seven patents-in-campaign through the provision of mobile chipsets with certain features related to memory management. Those accused products include the STiH416 system-on-chip, targeted over its alleged inclusion of an ARM Cortex-A9 Core and its cache memory; certain STM STM32F100xx Series microcontrollers (MCUs), which allegedly include a direct memory access (DMA) controller; the Telemaco3P family of microprocessors (designed for automotive telematics), which allegedly include certain types of DDR memory; and the STiH series of systems-on-chip, targeted over certain energy conservation features of the Cortex-A9. The asserted patents, of disparate origins but all received from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV), generally relate to chip operation and memory access.