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UPC Court of Appeal Rules Twice Against NPEs on Providing Securities for Litigation Costs
Patent Litigation Feature
The Unified Patent Court (UPC) has been a game-changer for patent litigation in Europe since its launch last June, offering plaintiffs the prospect of damages and injunctive relief spanning up to 17 EU countries. However, the UPC’s approach to certain issues has only recently started to solidify—including its application of a rule allowing the court to require plaintiffs to pay a security to cover the defendant’s costs in order to keep litigating. Earlier this year, two UPC Local Divisions reached different conclusions in weighing whether to impose securities against two separate US-based NPEs: The Munich Local Division (“Munich LD”) denied a defendant’s request for a security against one plaintiff, while the Paris Local Division (“Paris LD”) granted a request against another—the latter also rejecting a US insurance policy offered by the plaintiff as a guarantee. Now, the Court of Appeal has reviewed those two decisions, in both instances ruling against the plaintiff-appellants.
September 22, 2024
Cobblestone Wireless Sues Two New Defendants Outside the Eastern District of Texas
New Patent Litigation
Texas plaintiff Cobblestone Wireless, LLC has filed new complaints, one against Apple (7:24-cv-00232) in the Western District of Texas and another against Lenovo (Motorola Mobility) (1:24-cv-08726) in the Northern District of Illinois. Two patents are asserted against each defendant, both patents previously asserted in this campaign, which began back in December 2022 with separate cases filed against AT&T (AT&T Mobility), Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile), and Verizon (Verizon Wireless). Ericsson and Nokia intervened in that litigation, which appears to be drawing to a close, as an Eastern District of Texas trial previously set for this month before Chief Judge Rodney Gilstrap has been removed from the calendar.
September 22, 2024
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
Litigation over Former Avaya Portfolio Begins
New Patent Litigation
Arlington Technologies LLC, a Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC plaintiff, has filed a two suits against Comcast (2:24-cv-00768, 2:24-cv-00769) in the Eastern District of Texas. In the first suit, Comcast is accused over the provision of networking products and communications platforms that support features such as Anywhere Calling, BeAnywhere, TWT functionality (as defined in the 802.11ax networking standard), and Wi-Fi Multimedia; in the second, over the use of the Apache Kafka service to “monitor its network infrastructure”. All eight patents-in-suit came to Arlington Technologies from Avaya.
September 22, 2024
Woodbury Wireless Asserts Just-Issued Patent
New Patent Litigation
The USPTO issued a new patent toWoodbury Wireless LLC on June 18, 2024. In a pair of Eastern District of Texas complaints, Woodbury Wireless has now accused AT&T (AT&T Mobility) (2:24-cv-00771) and Nokia (2:24-cv-00772) of infringing that patent through the provision of “802.11be-compliant access points”. Litigation over patents from this same family is already underway before Chief Judge Rodney Gilstrap, against AT&T, as well as against Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile), the first suit in the campaign, filed against Verizon (Verizon Wireless) having been dismissed with prejudice in February of this year.
September 22, 2024
Redstone Logics Hits Qualcomm as Well
New Patent Litigation
This past January Redstone Logics, LLC sued MediaTek and NXP Semiconductors in a pair of Western District of Texas complaints. Now, the Texas plaintiff has added a case against Qualcomm (7:24-cv-00231), asserting the same patent already in suit, a patent generally related to a multicore processor with two set of processor cores where each has its own supply voltage and an independent PLL (“phase-locked loop”) clock signal. Infringement allegations target “products comprising one or more SoC each comprising two or more sets of processors implementing or based on the DynamIQ Shared Unit architecture (e.g., ARMv8.2, ARMv9 ARMv9.2, and successors) or big.LITTLE architecture, including without limitation the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and the Snapdragon 835 Mobile Platform”.
September 21, 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
“OK. Declaration of War Accepted”
New Patent Litigation
In a new Northern District of California complaint, Samsung (3:24-cv-06567) seeks declaratory judgments of noninfringement of four patents broadly directed to using sensors on an electronic device to capture location and/or movement data. CyWee Group Ltd. and CM HK, Ltd. are named as defendants, CM HK characterized as the alleged “alter ego, agent, and/or successor of CyWee”. Samsung pleads that “over the course of the last five to six months in communications regarding resolution of another matter between Samsung and CyWee”, the defendants have alleged that they intend to file a patent infringement action (with the four patents) against Samsung over its “mobile devices”.
September 20, 2024
ServStor Sues Broadcom and MediaTek over Patents New to This Campaign
New Patent Litigation
ServStor Technologies, LLC, an IPInvestments Group LLC (d/b/a IPinvestments Group) plaintiff, has sued Broadcom (2:24-cv-00761) and MediaTek (2:24-cv-00760) in separate Eastern District of Texas complaints. Broadcom is targeted over the provision of certain “servers, routers, and systems-on-a-chip (‘SoC’) that manage internet connections and storage partitions”; MediaTek, of certain “microchips, servers, routers, ethernet switches, systems-on-a-chip (“SoCs”), and ASICs”. At issue are features such as “accelerat[ing] the transmission of packets across a network”, “communicatively coupl[ing] an apparatus to a network”, and “transmit[ting] and encapsulat[ing] packets to a target device”.
September 19, 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 19, 2024