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WSOU Files Against Cisco in East Texas as West Texas Actions Continue to Sputter
New Patent Litigation
Since March 2020, WSOU Investments, LLC (d/b/a Brazos Licensing and Development) has been litigating patents from a large portfolio received from Nokia (including Alcatel-Lucent) in batches of cases filed separately against AMD (Xilinx), Huawei, ZTE, Microsoft, Dell (including EMC and VMware, the latter spun out and then later acquired Broadcom), Alphabet (Google), HP Enterprise (HPE), Juniper Networks, F5 Networks, NEC, OnePlus, Canon, TP-Link, Arista Networks, Salesforce, Cisco, and NETGEAR—in that rough order. Litigation remains active against Arista, Cisco, Dell, F5, Google, Salesforce, and VMware, WSOU this past week suing Cisco (2:24-cv-00332) for a second time, targeting the provision of various networking products and services, ranging from optical line systems to switching platforms, with five patents.
May 11, 2024
Slyde Analytics Steadily Expands Number of Asserted Patents in Smartwatch Campaign
New Patent Litigation, TPLF
Slyde Analytics LLC, a funded Ascend Innovation Management, LLC (AIM) plaintiff, has filed a fourth complaint in its smartwatch campaign, suing Apple (2:24-cv-00331) in the Eastern District of Texas where litigation is already underway against Samsung (sued in February 2023 over four patents), Zepp Health (sued in April 2023 over seven patents), and Garmin (March 2024, nine patents). Apple is accused of infringing 11 patents through the provision of smartwatches and related products, including smartphones, with an emphasis on features related to athletic performance metric tracking, displays, and power management.
May 10, 2024
Ad-Hoc Wireless Networking at Issue in SCR Networks’s Latest Complaint
New Patent Litigation
Following the October 2022 dismissal of its first and only patent case, filed against TP-Link in the Central District of California, SCR Networks LLC has sued Cisco (2:24-cv-00349), this time in the Eastern District of Texas. The plaintiff asserts a single patent generally related to ad-hoc wireless networking, with Cisco accused of infringement through the provision of routers that implement Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) using the OSPFv3 routing protocol.
May 10, 2024
AlmondNet Sues Amazon for a Third Time
New Patent Litigation
AlmondNet, Inc.—this time with its subsidiary Datonics, LLC as a coplaintiff—has filed a third suit against Amazon (Amazon.Com Services, Amazon Web Services) (6:24-cv-00234) in the Western District of Texas. The plaintiff asserts two patents broadly directed to using profiles of “Internet-using entities” to distribute targeted electronic advertisements, with Amazon again accused of infringement through the provision of its advertisement platform and services. At issue are features related to data collection and targeted advertisements.
May 10, 2024
Rothschild Plaintiff Targets Training Products in Latest Suits
New Patent Litigation
Wyoming Intellectual Property Holdings, LLC (WIPH), a plaintiff associated with monetization figure Leigh M. Rothschild, has expanded its sole litigation campaign with separate Eastern District of Texas suits against Alphabet (Google) (2:24-cv-00336) and Vista Outdoor (2:24-cv-00340). The plaintiff asserts a different patent against each defendant, both generally related to comparing a deviation between a user’s action and a “standard action” and instructing the user to change to the standard action. Google is accused of infringement through the provision of the Fitbit app, with features for analyzing user health metrics to provide recommendations such as suggested workouts and fitness goals at issue. Vista Outdoor, meanwhile, is targeted over the Bushnell Launch Pro system, with features for analyzing and improving a user’s golf swing at issue.
May 10, 2024
Empire IP Expands Networking Campaign with Suit Against Juniper Networks
New Patent Litigation
Juniper Networks (1:24-cv-01935) is the latest defendant to be added to the sole litigation campaign of Fleet Connect Solutions LLC (FCS), a plaintiff associated with Texas monetization firm Empire IP LLC. In the new Northern District of Georgia complaint, FCS asserts seven wireless communications patents, each received from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV). Juniper Networks is accused of infringement over a wide array of networking products (e.g., access points, firewalls, and routers) that support Bluetooth, IEEE 802.11ac/b/n, and LTE connectivity.
May 10, 2024
IPR and EPR Rulings Imperil Recent East Texas Verdicts in Favor of G+ Communications
In Case You Missed It, TPLF
In mid-April, an Eastern District of Texas jury returned a verdict awarding G+ Communications LLC $142M in a damages retrial against Samsung before Chief Judge Rodney Gilstrap: $61M for the infringement of one former ZTE patent and $81M of another. Now, in an inter partes review (IPR) triggered by a petition filed by Samsung based on the disclosure of an LG Electronics (LGE) patent, the PTAB has canceled a set of claims from that second patent that includes claim 20, the one found infringed by the East Texas jury. In parallel, the Patent Office, also last week, in an ex parte reexamination (EPR) found the infringed claims of the second patent to be obvious on multiple grounds, including a single-reference challenge based on an application associated with another LGE patent.
May 6, 2024
Apparently Backed by an Unnamed Funder, SoundClear Technologies Launches Litigation
New Patent Litigation, TPLF
In separate Eastern District of Virginia complaints, SoundClear Technologies LLC has accused Alphabet (Google) (1:24-cv-00729) and Amazon (Amazon Web Services) (1:24-cv-00728) of infringing three patents originally developed at JVCKenwood. The Virginia plaintiff targets the provision of the defendants’ respective voice assistants and related hardware and software products. At issue are features related to noise reduction, speech detection/processing, and volume control.
May 4, 2024
Yet Another New Mexico Plaintiff Launches Patent Litigation
New Patent Litigation
New Mexico entity Lab Technology LLC has filed separate Eastern District of Texas cases against Samsung (2:24-cv-00324) and Verizon (2:24-cv-00323). Against Samsung the plaintiff asserts five patents apparently received from TP Lab, Inc., three of which are also in suit against Verizon. One of those three patents asserted against both Samsung and Verizon generally relates to “refreshing” a phone’s display with a location-specific “communication service”. Lab Technology is not the first plaintiff to accuse Samsung of infringing that patent, here targeting provision of the Galaxy Watch6 where the prior lawsuit, dismissed with prejudice in January 2019, focused on Samsung smartphones.
May 3, 2024
In DigitalDoors Campaign, IBM Exits Stage Right While Another Raft of Financial Institutions Enter Stage Left
New Patent Litigation, TPLF
DigitalDoors, Inc. has filed another round of Eastern District of Texas complaints, hitting Cadence Bank National Association (2:24-cv-00311), Cathay General Bancorp (Cathay Bank) (2:24-cv-00312), Cullen/Frost Bankers (Frost Bank) (2:24-cv-00315), First Horizon (First Horizon Bank) and Iberia Bank (2:24-cv-00313), First National Bank of Nebraska (First National Bank (Omaha)) (2:24-cv-00314), Origin Bancorp (Origin Bank) (2:24-cv-00316), PNC Financial Services (PNC Bank National Association) (2:24-cv-00317), Simmons First National (Simmons Bank) (2:24-cv-00319), UMB Financial (UMB Bank NA) (2:24-cv-00320), and Wells Fargo (2:24-cv-00310). The financial institution defendants are targeted over the use of data processing systems compliant with the Sheltered Harbor specification, or those that otherwise “provide substantially equivalent functionality” for “providing data backup of critical customer account data” based on certain content filters, allegedly as claimed in the asserted four patents.
May 3, 2024