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IPValue’s Monterey Research Sues Renesas, Alleged Customer DENSO
New Patent Litigation
Monterey Research, LLC has brought four more patents into the litigation campaign that it began back in November 2019. It has done so through a new Eastern District of Texas suit filed against both DENSO and Renesas Electronics (2:24-cv-00238), DENSO as the alleged customer of the wide array of accused semiconductor devices and integrated circuits, including certain embedded flash memory devices, as well as microcontrollers. Past defendants in this campaign include AMD, Broadcom, Marvell, and Qualcomm, as well as Nanya Technology and STMicro, the cases against which are on the verge of closure after extensive activity before the USPTO over the patents asserted there.
April 13, 2024
Datamonitor Systems Returns to Court
New Patent Litigation
More than a year after a resolution of the case filed by Datamonitor Systems LLC against IBM led to a dismissal with prejudice, the plaintiff has returned to litigation. Datamonitor has sued Cisco (6:24-cv-00186) and Sophos (6:24-cv-00185) in separate Western District of Texas complaints, over the provision of the Firewall Management Center and Unified Threat Management “intrusion detection and prevention system[s]”, respectively.
April 12, 2024
Daedalus Prime Sues MediaTek Alone in Latest Complaint
New Patent Litigation
In August 2022, Daedalus Prime LLC, an entity associated with Daedalus Group LLC, launched its sole litigation campaign with a set of actions, one before the International Trade Commission (ITC) against MediaTek, NXP Semiconductors, certain automakers, and certain automaker suppliers; and three filed in the District of Delaware, one centered around each of MediaTek, NXP, and Qualcomm (but naming as defendants subsets of the proposed ITC respondents). Now, the plaintiff has sued MediaTek (2:24-cv-00235) alone, this time in the Eastern District of Texas. The asserted patents, described in the complaint as “relate[d] to groundbreaking improvements to microprocessor circuitry”, are broadly directed to various aspects of computer circuitry and semiconductor fabrication. The defendant is accused of infringement through the provision of devices containing microprocessors and systems-on-chip (SoCs), including certain Dimensity-series SoCs, that are based on the ARMv8.2 architecture and later.
April 12, 2024
Quinn Emanuel, Longford Capital Announce Litigation Funding Deal
Patent Market, Patent Watch, TPLF
Litigation funder Longford Capital and law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP announced on April 11 a litigation financing offering for private equity firms and their portfolio companies. According to a press release, “Longford has committed up to $40M in equity capital to Quinn Emanuel’s private equity clients involved in litigation, funding attorneys’ fees and litigation costs and monetizing the value of meritorious legal claims”.
April 12, 2024
Crystal Mountain Adds Suits Against Coolpad and OnePlus to Recent Campaign
New Patent Litigation
Crystal Mountain Communications, LLC has sued Coolpad Group (Yulong Computer Telecommunications Scientific) (4:24-cv-00308) and OnePlus (4:24-cv-00309) over a wide array of devices, including devices that utilize 4G modems or Wi-Fi, as well as smartphones and tablets that support “portable digital video player” and “geographic tracking” capabilities. In these new Eastern District of Texas complaints, the Ascend Innovation Management, LLC plaintiff asserts subsets of its portfolio of former Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV) patents, subsets that overlap with those asserted in the cases that launched this campaign, filed against Diamond Creek Global (TP-Link Corporation) and TP-Link Technologies, D-Link, and Unizyx (Zyxel).
April 12, 2024
Eireog Innovations Follows Up Campaign Launch by Suing Lenovo
New Patent Litigation
Eireog Innovations Limited has followed up its litigation debut last week—with separate Eastern District of Texas suits against Cisco, Fortinet, IBM, and Palo Alto Networks—by filing a case against Lenovo (2:24-cv-00239) in the same district. The plaintiff asserts the same four patents, again targeting the provision of products, this time ranging from laptops to servers, that incorporate certain AMD and Intel-based CPUs. This campaign appears to be at least the ninth from an Atlantic IP Services Limited plaintiff to hit Lenovo and/or its subsidiary Motorola Mobility.
April 12, 2024
Patent Armory Adds Nearly 20 Defendants to Its First Litigation Campaign
New Patent Litigation
Last week, Patent Armory Inc. filed another wave of litigation in a campaign that has focused, at least in significant part, on customer service systems that support routing/triage tools, suing Auntie Anne’s (2:24-cv-00232), Capriotti’s Sandwich Shop (2:24-cv-00236), and Charter Communications (2:24-cv-00237) in the Eastern District of Texas; Barclays (4:24-cv-01282) in the Southern District of Texas; BBDI (6:24-cv-00176), Chuy’s Holdings (6:24-cv-00178), Dell (6:24-cv-00180), Fiesta Restaurant Group (Texas Taco Cabana) (6:24-cv-00184), Fired Up (6:24-cv-00182), PayPal (6:24-cv-00183), UNUM (6:24-cv-00191), UnitedHealthCare Services (6:24-cv-00190), and Wells Fargo (6:24-cv-00192) in the Western District of Texas; Oscar Health (1:24-cv-02816) and Mastercard (1:24-cv-02815) in the Southern District of New York; TDM IP Holder (1:24-cv-00969) in the District of Colorado; Thrivent Investment Management (3:24-cv-00236) in the Western District of Wisconsin; and United Airlines (1:24-cv-02921) in the Northern District of Illinois. Similar to its most recent complaints, a majority of the new suits cite exhibits allegedly detailing accused products that are missing from their respective dockets.
April 11, 2024
California Court Dismisses “Hotly Pursued” License Claim, Intel Turns Back to Texas
In Case You Missed It
Intel has been trying to litigate whether an earlier license agreement with Finjan, Inc. provides a defense in the multidistrict campaign of VLSI Technology LLC against it. Last week, Northern District of California Judge Beth Labson Freeman ruled that a forum selection clause in that license agreement requires any claim be brought in Delaware, the court dismissing the lone remaining license claim for forum non conveniens rather than transferring it to the District of Delaware. Also last week, Intel filed a motion to amend its answer, defenses, and counterclaims in the Western District of Texas to add the license defense there.
April 8, 2024
Atlantic IP Pegs Four Defendants Again
New Patent Litigation
Eireog Innovations Limited, an Atlantic Services IP Limited plaintiff, has filed its first cases over the portfolio of about a dozen patents that it received from NXP last November. The defendants are Cisco (2:24-cv-00224), Fortinet (2:24-cv-00225), IBM (2:24-cv-00226), and Palo Alto Networks (2:24-cv-00227), each accused of infringing the same four patents over the provision of products, ranging from blade servers to firewalls, that incorporate certain AMD- and/or Intel-based CPUs. This set of defendants is familiar to Atlantic IP.
April 6, 2024
Formal Rulemaking Not Required for NHK-Fintiv, Holds California Court
Patent Litigation Feature
An ongoing lawsuit targeting discretionary denial practices at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has hit a potentially decisive setback. In August 2020, a group of tech companies filed suit against then-USPTO Director Andrew Iancu over the agency’s precedential NHK-Fintiv rule, which allows the PTAB to deny institution in an America Invents Act (AIA) review based on the status of a parallel district court case asserting the same patent. Earlier this year, the case was narrowed to a single issue—whether NHK-Fintiv is invalid because the agency had failed to adopt it through notice-and-comment rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA)—after the Supreme Court decided not to revisit an earlier Federal Circuit ruling. Now, Northern District of California District Judge Edward J. Davila has granted summary judgment for current Director Kathi Vidal, holding that NHK-Fintiv is not a substantive rule but a general statement of agency policy that falls outside the APA’s rulemaking requirement.
April 6, 2024