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Malikie, Together with Key Patent Innovations, Sues Nintendo
New Patent Litigation
Malikie Innovations Limited (as “the successor-in-interest to a substantial patent portfolio created and procured over many years by Blackberry”) and Key Patent Innovations Limited (KPI, as “the beneficiary of a trust pursuant to which Malikie owns, holds, and asserts the Asserted Patents”) have together sued Nintendo (2:24-cv-01490) in the Western District of Washington over the provision of various models of the Nintendo Switch gaming console, its dock and charger, and its parental control system. This additional case in Malikie’s campaign drops, as prior defendant Acer has answered an amended complaint that added KPI as a party to that case, prior defendant ASUSTek has contested venue in the Eastern District of Texas, and a notice of settlement appears likely to end litigation against D-Link.
September 22, 2024
Inventor-Controlled NJTK Files First Litigation
New Patent Litigation
In a new District of Delaware complaint, NTJK, Inc. has accused Amazon (1:24-cv-01043) of infringing a single patent generally related to “searching” and “managing TV program data supplied by broadcasting stations” over the Internet. The inventor-controlled plaintiff targets the provision of the Amazon Prime Video streaming service; Amazon products compatible with Prime Video, including various Fire TV, Fire Stick, Fire, Kindle Fire, and Echo devices; and third-party devices compatible with the Prime Video app, including “non-Amazon TVs, tablets, smartphones, computers and other devices”.
September 21, 2024
IoT Innovations Turns to the Eastern District of . . . Wisconsin
Energy, New Patent Litigation
Ten days after suing ecobee (for the second time), IoT Innovations LLC, an Empire IP LLC plaintiff, has filed an Eastern District of Wisconsin complaint against Generac (Generac Power Systems) (2:24-cv-01178). Seven patents are asserted in the new case, with infringement allegations focused on the provision of “remote security and control platform and systems”, including the Generac Mobile Link system and related products (i.e., the Mobile Link mobile app and Mobile Link Cellular 4G LTE device), as well as the Generac EV Chargers and related products (i.e., the Generac EV Charging mobile app).
September 21, 2024
A Third Alice Shoe Seems Destined to Drop
New Patent Litigation
ThroughTEK Co., Ltd., together with its subsidiary ThroughTEK Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., has filed a third District of Delaware complaint against Reolink Digital Technology (Reolink Innovation) (1:24-cv-01027), again also naming as defendants a set of retailers Amazon, eBay, Home Depot, Micro Electronics (Micro Center), and Walmart (Sam’s West). This past April, in ThroughTek’s first suit against these same defendants, District Judge Gregory B. Williams sustained a set of objections to a magistrate judge report and recommendation that the court deny the defendant’s motion to dismiss under Alice. Judge Williams, after taking a fresh look, ruled that the claims of are patent-ineligibly directed to the abstract idea of “using an image (such as a barcode or QR code) to convey information needed to establish a communication link (a P2P connection)”.
September 21, 2024
A Portfolio of Chip Packaging Patents Moves into Suggestive Hands
Patent Market, Patent Watch
At the end of July, a chipmaker moved roughly 50 US patents to a Texas entity, the name of which suggests the general subject matter of the transacted assets. The divestiture is one of several from this source to NPEs over the last several years, the most prominent of which has resulted in a long-running litigation campaign producing eyepopping Western District of Texas verdicts, notable Federal Circuit activity, and a hotly disputed license defense.
September 16, 2024
Court “Impermissibly” Overgeneralized Camera Patent Claims Nixed Under Alice, Rules Federal Circuit
Patent Litigation Feature
The Federal Circuit has revived a long-running dispute between Contour IP Holding, LLC and GoPro over action cameras, overturning a ruling that the asserted patents were ineligible under Alice. While the Northern District of California determined in 2022 that the claimed system for generating video at multiple quality levels depended only on generic camera components and was abstract, the appellate court countered in a September 9 precedential opinion that the lower court had characterized the patents at an “impermissibly high level of generality”. In the process, the Federal Circuit rejected the district court’s interpretation of a prior decision from 2021 that divided the appellate court over the proper bounds of Alice as applied to a physical device.
September 15, 2024
Patent Pool Contributor Wilus Institute Launches WiFi 6 Litigation
New Patent Litigation
Korean plaintiff Wilus Institute of Standards & Technology, Inc. has launched what appears to be its first US litigation, suing ASUSTek (Askey Computer) (2:24-cv-00753), HP (2:24-cv-00752), and Samsung (2:24-cv-00746) in a trio of new Eastern District of Texas complaints. Six wireless communications patents are asserted, in overlapping subsets, with infringement allegations targeting a wide array of devices that are compliant with the WiFi 6 (IEEE 802.11ax) standard. Wilus discloses Good Day to Invent, Inc. as its corporate parent.
September 15, 2024
NVIDIA AI Chips Targeted in New West Texas Complaint
New Patent Litigation
In a new Western District of Texas complaint, Neural AI, LLC has accused NVIDIA (7:24-cv-00221) of infringing three patents moved to the plaintiff from Neurala this past July. Targeted is the provision of “products that provide and implement GPU-acceleration hardware, software, platforms, and services”, including NVIDIA’s GPU accelerators (with its “Hopper”, “Ada Lovelace”, “Ampere”, “Turing”, “Volta”, “Pascal”, and “Maxwell” GPU architectures) and its “superchips”. Neural AI describes the asserted patents as generally related to “the accelerated execution of numerical simulations and neural networks such that the intermediate outputs of a given execution ‘step’ can be dynamically transferred from the GPU to the CPU, reviewed, and corrected within the same computational cycle before being fed as inputs to the next execution step”.
September 14, 2024
Funded Avant Location Turns Around, Tags Apple
New Patent Litigation, TPLF
The same day that the February 2024 case that Avant Location Technologies LLC filed against Samsung was dismissed with prejudice, after a noticed settlement, the plaintiff filed a new complaint against Apple (2:24-cv-00757), asserting the same seven patents. Per Avant, “the Accused Products are Apple products that implement Find My, which include, but are not limited to, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Apple Watch, Mac, AirPods, AirTag, Apple Pencil, and Apple Vision Pro”. Litigation remains active against the other two defendants in this campaign: Generac (ecobee), which has yet to respond to a July 2023 complaint; and Fibar Group, which filed an answer on August 28, 2024.
September 14, 2024
WiLAN’s Collabo Hits Qualcomm
New Patent Litigation
Since August 2014, Collabo Innovations, Inc., a Wi-LAN Inc. (WiLAN) subsidiary, has been litigating a portfolio of patents received in 2013 from Panasonic, doing so across three campaigns as a formal matter. In February of this year, the last active case, against AMD in the Western District of Texas, was dismissed with prejudice after the parties noticed a resolution. Now, Collabo has sued Qualcomm (6:24-cv-00472) over the same single patent, generally related to a conserving power in a microcontroller. The accused products include “Qualcomm processors such as the Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 Processor APQ8064 and other processors and platforms offered and sold by Qualcomm that support low power state with power collapse (and similar functionality)”.
September 14, 2024