Patent assignments recently made public by the USPTO suggest that Acacia Research Corporation has returned to a familiar well, possibly for more litigation; that an entity tied to a familiar patent pool is collecting assets from various sources; and that there may be simple logic behind the name of a fruity new entrant.

MOSAID Technologies Inc. has followed up its pair of 2025 complaints against Infineon Technologies with a new case filed against Intel (1:25-cv-00677) in the Western District of Texas. Against Intel, MOSAID asserts ten former TSMC patents and one former Panasonic patent, targeting the provision of various semiconductor devices (i.e., chipsets, FPGAs, graphics, GPUs, processors, and server products) with “active circuitry made using Intel FinFET Low Power (‘22FFL’), Intel 16, Intel 10 nm, Intel 7, Intel 4, and Intel 3 process nodes”, as well as devices (e.g., desktop computers and laptops) that incorporate such products—including those manufactured by entities identified as its “Authorized Distributors”, such as Dell.

Modena Navigation LLC has launched a litigation campaign, suing Honda (2:25-cv-00494), Hyundai and Kia (2:25-cv-00496), Nissan (2:25-cv-00495), and Toyota (2:25-cv-00492) in the Eastern District of Texas. Each defendant is accused of infringing the same four former MiTAC patents through the provision of vehicles that incorporate infotainment and navigation systems. At issue are features such as adjusting display modes based on the time of day, lane navigation, “navigation condition” monitoring, and real-time information tracking. Modena Navigation appears to be part of a spinoff from a familiar patent monetization operation.

1-800-Flowers (1:25-cv-00558) and Teradata (1:25-cv-00559) are the latest defendants to be added to the sole litigation campaign of DataCloud Technologies, LLC, an entity associated with Georgia monetization firm IPInvestments Group LLC. In the new District of Delaware complaints, the plaintiff asserts four patents—each received from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV)—that are broadly directed to either file management or network communications. The defendants are accused of infringement through the provision and/or use of a wide array of products, including mobile apps, website infrastructure, and firewall products.

Web3AI Technologies, LLC has begun litigating a single patent broadly directed to a “predictive compiler module configured to generate machine learning” with a suit against MicroStrategy (2:25-cv-00260) in the Eastern District of Virginia. MicroStrategy is accused of infringement through the provision of its virtual AI assistant “Auto” and related AI services—including the Auto Answers, Auto Narratives, and HyperIntelligence with Auto features—as implemented in its various software platforms (i.e., MicroStrategy AI and MicroStrategy ONE).

MessageLoud, Inc. has sued Apple (6:25-cv-00185) in the Western District of Texas and Samsung (2:25-cv-00486) in the Eastern District of Texas, each over five patents described by the plaintiff as generally related to “delivering and reading out loud text messages, emails, and/or messages from a messenger application to a user without any user input”. Infringement allegations target the provision of a wide array of products—including automotive software (i.e., Android Auto and CarPlay), earbuds and headphones, smart watches, smartphones, and tablets—that “support or enable features that read notifications aloud without user input”.

New Mexico plaintiff Cascade Systems LLC has filed suit against Elliott Capital Group (Barnes & Noble) (2:25-cv-00510), Learnfly Edtech Private (2:25-cv-00511), OKX (2:25-cv-00512), and PA Media Group (Alamy) (2:25-cv-00509) in the Eastern District of Texas, as well as against Canva (7:25-cv-00217). With a single patent generally related to peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing systems, the plaintiff targets the provision of a wide array of products, including eBook sharing, online course, professional design, and stock image platforms/services. At issue are features for allowing customers to license or purchase media content (through direct purchase or subscription plans), which is then transferred via a content delivery network (CDN).

Late last year, Omni MedSci, Inc. filed a single Eastern District of Texas complaint against Fossil, OnePlus, Oura Health, and Samsung alleging infringement of five patents from a large family that names University of Michigan professor Mohammed N. Islam as the sole inventor. Another member of that family issued in January, prompting a March amended complaint in that case. Now, Omni MedSci has filed a second case against the same four defendants in the same district (2:25-cv-00483), asserting the most recent patent to issue in the family, which did so in April. Prosecution of many related applications continues before the USPTO.

DYNAMIC MESH NETWORKS, INC. (d/b/a MeshDynamics) has filed an Eastern District of Texas complaint against Cisco (2:25-cv-00472), asserting five mesh networking patents against Cisco’s provision of mesh networking equipment and solutions, including access points, control systems, and wireless controllers. Per the complaint, “[i]n the early 2000s”, MeshDynamics and its principal “focused on enabling the self-forming, tree-shaped wireless mesh networks that are ubiquitous today”.

In a new Eastern District of Virginia complaint, Xtone, Inc. has accused Amazon (1:25-cv-00772) of infringing six patents described as covering “ground breaking technologies that employ a highly distributed processing architecture, enabling users to access voice application services through local device executed, speech-enabled voice application service instructions”. Targeted is the provision of Amazon Alexa, Amazon Alexa+, and the Amazon Alexa Voice Service (AVS), as well as related hardware and software products.