Funded plaintiff Active Wireless Technologies LLC has filed a second pair of Eastern District of Texas suits, one against each of Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile) (2:24-cv-00723) and Verizon (Verizon Wireless) (2:24-cv-00724). In the ongoing litigation, in which Ericsson and Nokia have intervened, Chief Judge Rodney Gilstrap denied as premature motions to stay in light of inter partes review (IPR) of the asserted patents—the PTAB has yet to return institution decisions in response to the petitions filed. All the patents here in suit were received from FG Innovation Company Ltd. (f/k/a FG IP Innovation Company Ltd.) (FGI).

Red Hat (5:24-cv-00505), acquired by IBM in 2019, has filed an Eastern District of North Carolina complaint against Competitive Access Systems, Inc. (CAS), , asserting a claim under that state’s bad-faith patent assertion law, the North Carolina Abusive Patent Assertion Act (APAA), and seeking a judgment of noninfringement for its Linux products. The seven patents at issue broadly relate to networking, including network path optimization, bandwidth sharing, and/or multiple links between a source and destination for bonded data transmission.

Publicly traded Quest Patent Research Corporation (QPRC) subsidiary Harbor Island Dynamic LLC (HID) has filed a second case, accusing NXP Semiconductors (2:24-cv-00717) of infringing two of the four patents already in suit, since February 2024, against Samsung. In its latest 10-Q, QPRC indicates that the seven patents acquired in March 2023 from Newfort Fab, LLC (d/b/a Tower Semiconductor Newport Beach, Inc.) were picked up “for a purchase price of $3,300,000 pursuant to which [QPRC] retains an amount equal to the purchase price plus a negotiated return and any fees out of net proceeds, as defined in the agreement, after which Tower in entitled to a percentage of further net proceeds realized, if any”.

Advanced Coding Technologies LLC (ACT) has filed a second suit against Apple (2:24-cv-00687), in which it asserts three patents that it added to its case against Alphabet (Google) through an early August amended complaint. Now in suit against both defendants are the same six patents, which overlap with subsets of a larger portfolio received from JVCKenwood, subsets asserted in cases against Bytedance, LG Electronics (LGE) and Samsung. Still active, the case against Samsung is closing in on trial, although Samsung has just notified Eastern District of Texas Chief Judge Rodney Gilstrap that its renewed motion to stay the suit to await appeals from various inter partes reviews (IPRs) is now fully briefed.

In late July, AGIS Holdings Inc. plaintiff AGIS Software Development LLC (ASD) separately sued AT&T (AT&T Mobility), GPSWOX and UAB Mr Digital, L3 Harris Technologies, Motorola Solutions, and RTX (Raytheon Technologies), all in the Eastern District of Texas. Now, ASD has continued this wave of new litigation, adding complaints filed in the same district against Acer (2:24-cv-00660), Dell (2:24-cv-00662), HP and HP Enterprise (HPE) (2:24-cv-00663, sued in a single complaint), and Lenovo (2:24-cv-00666). The five patents-in-suit are familiar; they are among now 13 that have been asserted across the decade that this campaign has been up and running.

As RPX recently noted, on June 25, 2024, Suzhou Lekin Semiconductor Co. Ltd. (d/b/a LEKIN) transferred 27 US patents to Light Guide Innovations LLC, which has now accused TCL (TCT Mobile and multiple subsidiaries) (2:24-cv-00646) of infringing 14 of its received assets, described by the plaintiff as covering “systems and methods related to LED lighting and image enhancement for televisions and displays”. Targeting the provision of displays and TVs that incorporate LED, QLED, and QD-MINI LED lighting technologies, Light Guide has backing from a prominent litigation funder.

On May 10, 2024, Orange (f/k/a France Telecom) assigned five US patents to IP monetization firm Transpacific IP Group Limited. This divestiture echoes a fateful acquisition by Transpacific IP from Orange back in 2017—an acquisition that led to a failed deal with monetization shop Slingshot Technologies LLC, a completed deal with publicly traded Acacia Research Corporation, a litigation campaign from Acacia’s Monarch Networking Solutions LLC that remains active today, and Delaware state court litigation between Slingshot and Acacia that has persisted in parallel, through the present day. In June 2024, Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric M. Davis denied Acacia’s motion for summary judgment in its entirety, with the presence of a prominent figure in litigation funding on Acacia’s board figuring in the disputed factual predicate for Slingshot’s persistent trade secret misappropriation and companion tort claims.

SoundClear Technologies LLC has filed a second pair of Eastern District of Virginia complaints against Alphabet (Google) (3:24-cv-00540) and Amazon (Amazon Web Services) (1:24-cv-01283). Separate May 1, 2024 complaints target with three former JVCKenwood patents the provision of the defendants’ respective voice assistants and related hardware and software products. Three other such patents are asserted in the new complaints, which focus on the provision of a wide range of products: for Amazon, certain Echo, Fire, and Kindle-series devices and related products that support Alexa and the Alexa Voice Service (AVS); and for Google, certain Google Home, Nest, Nexus, and Pixel-series devices. Again at issue is voice recognition and processing, but also targeted are multi-touch gesture features.

Longhorn Automotive Group LLC launched its litigation campaign—over a portfolio of former Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV) received from AI-CORE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC—by suing Nissan in the Eastern District of Texas at the end of May 2024. Now, the funded Alpha Alpha Intellectual Partners LLC plaintiff has filed a second suit in the same district, accusing Hyundai (Kia) (2:24-cv-00554) of infringing six patents, four of which overlap with those already in suit. Longhorn Automotive Group targets a range of features—including driver assistance systems, headlight systems, and internal combustion engines—in various Hyundai and Kia-branded automobiles.

MORRIS ROUTING TECHNOLOGIES, LLC (MRT) has filed separate lawsuits against AT&T (AT&T Mobility) (4:24-cv-00623), Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile) (4:24-cv-00625), Samsung (4:24-cv-00624), and Verizon (Verizon Wireless) (4:24-cv-00626) over their various networks (e.g., 5G, fixed-line, fiber, IP, and wireless) and networking solutions. At issue is the support for segment routing (SR) technologies, including the “functionality specified in the SF RFCs” published by the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) standards setting organization. Asserted in non-overlapping subsets are 31 of the 39 wireless networking patents that currently available USPTO records suggest that MRT holds; Texas records indicate that the patents’ sole named inventor is backing this litigation.