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Advanced Coding Technologies Hits Google
New Patent Litigation, TPLF
Advanced Coding Technologies LLC (ACT) has added a case against Alphabet (Google) (2:24-cv-00353) to the litigation campaign begun back in April 2022 over a portfolio of patents received from JVCKenwood. The plaintiff describes the three asserted patents—also in suit in the Eastern District of Texas against LG Electronics (LGE) and Samsung—as generally related to “coding and decoding data efficiently”, with infringement allegations highlighting Google Pixel smartphones “that, upon information and belief, encode and/or decode digital video using the AV1 codec using Tensor processors”. According to court documents, ACT is now finalizing a settlement with one of those two prior defendants.
May 12, 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
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
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
Four Batons Wireless Launches First Litigation over Mobile Communications Portfolio Received from Toshiba
New Patent Litigation, TPLF
Four among the roughly 60 patents that Toshiba divested to Four Batons Wireless LLC in June 2021 have now appeared in litigation. In a new Eastern District of Texas complaint, Four Batons accuses Samsung (2:24-cv-000284) of infringing those mobile communications patents through the provision of products—with the Samsung Z Flip 5 smartphone identified as the exemplary accused product—that support dual concurrent Wi-Fi, multiple heterogeneous radio interfaces, the WPA3 security certification standard, and the Samsung Intelligent Wi-Fi feature.
April 28, 2024
Panasonic Reorg Prompts DJ Action in the Northern District of California
New Patent Litigation, TPLF
Following an apparent reorganization, Panasonic Entertainment & Communication (PEC), now a subsidiary of Panasonic Holdings, has filed a new complaint asking the Northern District of California for declaratory judgments of noninfringement of four patents generally related to in-camera systems for filtering and correcting distortions. Optimum Imaging Technologies LLC (OIT) asserted the four patents against Panasonic in an October 2023 complaint filed in the Eastern District of Texas and targeting the provision of certain cameras and lenses. PEC pleads that OIT has not yet served Panasonic with the West Texas complaint, although Optimum has apparently “indicated that it will seek to serve Panasonic Corporation through the Hague Convention”.
April 25, 2024
Ramey LLP Seeks to Maintain Appeals, Apparently to Defend Against Any Sanctions in the Court Below
In Case You Missed It, TPLF
Last Friday, the Federal Circuit gave CTD Networks LLC, a plaintiff under the apparent control of “AiPi, LLC (f/k/a AiPi Solutions)”, and district court defendant Alphabet (Google) a week “to file an updated status report indicating how they believe this appeal should now proceed” now that Whitestone Law has apprised the court that it has no plans to enter an appearance in the matter. On February 2, 2024, CTD’s current counsel, Ramey LLP, was allowed to withdraw from the appeal conditioned on the entry of appearance of new counsel for CTD Networks within 30 days. Per Ramey LLP’s emergency motion to withdraw, “In short, AiPi and Whitestone appear to be purposely prejudicing Ramey LLP’s and CTD Network’s [sic] interests in the pending appeal at the Federal Circuit by not filing an appeal brief”.
April 21, 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
Westfleet Releases Its Fifth Annual Market Report on Litigation Finance
Patent Market, Patent Watch, TPLF
This week Westfleet Advisors released its annual market report on litigation finance, providing transactional data for 39 commercial litigation funders active in the US. As is the case for most reporting on the largely opaque practice of third-party litigation funding, the fifth iteration of Westfleet’s yearly publication is inherently incomplete; however, the report does offer useful metrics by which the growth of the litigation finance market can be measured.
March 30, 2024