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Amazon and Extreme Networks Added as Defendants in Proven’s Networking Campaign
New Patent Litigation
Proven Networks, LLC has added a Northern District of California suit against Extreme Networks (3:20-cv-02067) and a Western District of Texas suit against Amazon (6:20-cv-00266) to its sole litigation campaign, begun in March with separate cases against Cisco, filed in the Eastern District of Texas, and Dell (EMC), in the Western District of Texas. The new complaints assert a total of four former Nokia patents received from Provenance Asset Group LLC, three of which have been previously asserted by Proven Networks, and one appearing in litigation for the first time. The NPE targets Amazon over its AWS Transit Gateway, CloudFront content delivery networks (CDN) service, and ElastiCache in-memory data store and cache, and Extreme Networks over the Extreme XOS network operating system and various network devices that run it, including switches and edge devices, as well as Extreme Application Analytics, a platform that offers analytics for network application usage.
April 2, 2020
Bell Semic Expands Number of Former Broadcom Patents in Its Campaign to Nearly 20
New Patent Litigation
Bell Semiconductor, LLC (Bell Semic) has filed three new complaints in its sole campaign, over patents received from Broadcom in December 2017, two of the complaints amended and one original, that last one adding NXP Semiconductors (6:20-cv-00210) to the litigation. The plaintiff is a member of the Hilco, Inc. (d/b/a Hilco Global) family of companies; throughout this campaign, it has targeted the provision of various semiconductor devices (e.g., controllers, MCUs, processors, SOCs, transceivers, etc.), NXP with eight patents already in suit and two newly at issue. Amended complaints, filed just last week against Renesas Electronics and its subsidiary Integrated Device Technology (IDT), also brought additional patents into the campaign.
April 1, 2020
After Pelting Huawei, WSOU Pivots to ZTE in Multiple New Networking Cases
New Patent Litigation
Following a barrage of lawsuits against Huawei filed in the Western District of Texas earlier in March (see here), WSOU Investments, LLC has now trained its fire on ZTE, filing ten suits (6:20-cv-00211, 6:20-cv-00216, 6:20-cv-00224, 6:20-cv-00228, 6:20-cv-00229, 6:20-cv-00238, 6:20-cv-00240, 6:20-cv-00242, 6:20-cv-00254, 6:20-cv-00255), also in West Texas. WSOU asserts in each complaint a single patent from a portfolio of assets received from Nokia (including from Alcatel-Lucent) throughout 2017. Together, the ten new suits target a range of networking devices provided by ZTE—with only one of them asserting a patent already in suit against Huawei.
March 31, 2020
IP Edge Wields Valyrian IP Against a Second Round of Defendants
New Patent Litigation
Valyrian IP LLC has filed a second round of suits in its campaign over a former Siemens patent generally related to a cordless phone system where calls are forwarded from a base station to handsets based on priority. The new defendants are Sangoma (1:20-cv-00447), sued in the District of Delaware; RingCentral (1:20-cv-00868), in the District of Colorado; and AT&T (4:20-cv-00263), SpectrumVoIP (4:20-cv-00264), and Verizon (4:20-cv-00266), all sued in the Eastern District of Texas. The prior cases in the campaign—filed in July 2019 against Avaya, Grandstream Networks, ICON Voice Networks, and Plantronics (Polycom)—each ended after at most six months of uneventful litigation.
March 31, 2020
In Wake of Claim Construction Hearing, STC.UNM’s Semiconductor Fabrication Campaign Grows
COVID-19, New Patent Litigation
GlobalFoundries (6:20-cv-00243) has become the third defendant in the active litigation campaign of STC.UNM, the intellectual property enforcement arm of the Board of Regents of the University of New Mexico, over a homegrown semiconductor fabrication patent. The plaintiff accuses GlobalFoundries of infringement through the provision of semiconductor devices manufactured at “several process nodes” (i.e., minimum physical feature size or line width), including the 12 nm and 14 nm process nodes, with the body of the new complaint highlighting AMD Ryzen 2000-series chips as allegedly made at the identified nodes. On March 13, 2020, District Judge Alan D. Albright held a claim construction hearing in the two earlier suits in the campaign, one each filed against Samsung and TSMC.
March 31, 2020
Public Records Identify Marconi as Source of Acacia’s Recent Patent Acquisition
In Case You Missed It
Earlier this month, RPX pointed the readers of this weekly newsletter to public records identifying Marconi as the source of at least some of the patents recently acquired by Acacia Research Corporation. The transacted portfolio, assigned in February to a newly created Acacia subsidiary, includes assets originating with Samsung as well as patents developed by Fusion-IO (which in 2014 was acquired by SanDisk for $1.1B).
March 30, 2020
Lightside’s Video Processing Campaign Keeps Adding Defendants in 2020
New Patent Litigation
Lightside Technologies, LLC continues to add defendants to the litigation campaign that it began back in November 2016, suing Westinghouse Electronics (5:20-cv-00378) in the Central District of California and HTC (3:20-cv-00725) in the Northern District of Texas. Each complaint asserts different members of the same patent family, generally related to upscaling video content and providing video frame-rate conversion—with two family members asserted against HTC over the provision of HTC One series smartphones with slow-motion video capture and one family member against Westinghouse, targeting the provision of HDTVs and UHDTVs with MEMC (motion estimation/motion compensation) features.
March 30, 2020
Amid Continuing Divestitures, IV Files Cloud Computing Case in Its First New Campaign in Three Years
New Patent Litigation
Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV), through subsidiary Intellectual Ventures II LLC (IV II), has sued Dell (VMware) (6:20-cv-00220) over the provision of various products related to virtualization and data center network traffic monitoring and optimization. Five patents of disparate origins are asserted in the new Western District of Texas complaint, IV having moved three of them into the plaintiff’s possession back in 2018, assigning the other two to IV II earlier in March—along with five others of similar subject matter but not yet asserted in litigation. Various VMware products are accused of infringing the five patents.
March 29, 2020
Neodrón Keeps Filing as the ITC Suspends Hearings but Not Institutions
COVID-19, New Patent Litigation, TPLF
Irish NPE Neodrón Limited has filed a second Western District of Texas case against Apple (6:20-cv-00212), already a defendant in a case filed there in February. Apple is also a respondent in a related investigation before the International Trade Commission (ITC)—the second ITC action filed by Neodrón in this campaign (337-TA-1193). Fellow respondent Samsung sought to delay institution of the investigation altogether in the -1193 action in light of the global coronavirus pandemic, but to no avail. Institution occurred on March 16. However, the hearing in the first ITC action (337-TA-1162) has been postponed. Pursuant to ITC COVID-19 guidance to suspend all hearings scheduled to fall within 60 days of March 13, 2020, Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Cameron Elliot has just reset the hearing in the -1162 action, from March 23 to June 8. The plain language description from the second ITC action fairly describes the products that Neodrón accuses of infringement campaign wide: “touch-controlled smartphones, touch-controlled tablet devices, touch-controlled notebook computers, touch-controlled laptop computers, and components thereof”.
March 28, 2020
Dominion’s Monument Peak Ventures Acquires Varied Portfolio from Siemens
Patent Market, Patent Watch
According to recently released USPTO records, Monument Peak Ventures, LLC (MPV)—a subsidiary of the patent monetization firm Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC—received nearly 60 US assets from Siemens in a series of February 2020 patent assignments.
March 28, 2020