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Omni MedSci Targets Apple Watches in New Suit
New Patent Litigation
Inventor-controlled Omni MedSci, Inc. has filed suit against Apple (2:18-cv-00134), asserting four patents, naming as inventor University of Michigan professor Mohammed N. Islam, that generally relate to a “personal device”/wearable using “optical beams”/“near infrared lasers” for measurement. At issue are several models of Apple’s Watch product, including Series 1, Series 2, Series 3 GPS, and Series 3 GPS + Cellular watches, which Omni MedSci alleges measure heart rate using semiconductor LEDs.
April 6, 2018
March 2018 RPX Market Sector Update – Networking
As of March 31, 2018, there were roughly 245 active defendants in ongoing NPE litigation campaigns in the Networking market sector. Read on for new litigation highlights, activity before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, RPX prior art search reports, and more—all within the Networking market sector and the month of March 2018.
April 5, 2018
IP Bridge Sues Qualcomm
Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1 (IP Bridge 1), a subsidiary of Japanese patent monetization firm IP Bridge, Inc., has filed suit against Qualcomm (1:18-cv-00485), alleging infringement of seven former Panasonic patents generally related to various aspects of semiconductor fabrication. Qualcomm is accused of infringement through the manufacture and sale of certain semiconductors made with its 40 or 45 nm process (e.g., MSM8660 Snapdragon S3) and its 28 nm process (e.g., MSM8960 Snapdragon S4, MSM8916 Snapdragon 410, MSM8974 Snapdragon 800). Each of the patents has been asserted in this campaign against one or more of previous defendants Broadcom, Intel, OmniVision, and Xilinx.
April 5, 2018
Motorola Mobility Dismissed, Huawei Stayed, ZTE Sued in Display-Side Camera Campaign
On the heels of both a stay of an earlier case against Huawei and a dismissal of an even earlier suit against Lenovo (Motorola Mobility), inventor-controlled Corydoras Technologies, LLC has filed a new case against ZTE (2:18-cv-00127). As in previous complaints, the case against ZTE asserts seven patents generally related to various aspects of a mobile communications device that displays a mirror image of an object taken from a camera facing the direction of the display. Phones and tablets with a display-side camera are the accused products in the Corydoras Technologies campaign.
April 4, 2018
Pendrell Assigns Hundreds of Patents to Uniloc
In late March, the USPTO made public five patent assignments from various Pendrell Corporation subsidiaries to Uniloc Luxembourg S.A. This transaction appears to be the one that Pendrell disclosed in a February SEC filing—a divestiture it described as comprising “patents related to cellular and digital wireless devices and infrastructure” from multiple sources, including Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), IBM, and Philips. Collectively, the transfers assigned over 445 assets to Uniloc, including patents now being asserted by the NPE in seven recently initiated litigation campaigns.
March 31, 2018
Ultravision Sues Nearly a Full Alphabet of LED Display Defendants
Ultravision Technologies, LLC (d/b/a Ultravision International), a Delaware entity registered to conduct business in Texas, has filed a barrage of over 25 district court lawsuits and a concurrent action before the International Trade Commission (ITC) (337-TA-3302) against the same set of LED display panel manufacturers, such as Cirrus Systems (2:18-cv-00095) and Samsung (2:18-cv-00115); private label resellers such as Panasonic (2:18-cv-00107) (allegedly relabeling products purchased from defendant/respondent Lighthouse (2:18-cv-00104)); and distributors, including, for example, GoVision (2:18-cv-00100), which allegedly buys and distributes products bought from separate defendant/respondent digiLED (2:18-cv-00096). The new filings follow last fall’s entry of default judgment against Shenzhen Only Optoelectronic Tech in one of the first cases in this campaign, filed in August of 2016.
March 31, 2018
Uniloc Targets Alexa in Fifth 2018 Case Filed Against Amazon
So far this year, Uniloc Luxembourg S.A. and Uniloc USA, Inc. (collectively, Uniloc) have kicked off two of their seven new litigation campaigns by filing suit against Amazon, asserting patents recently acquired from Pendrell Corporation. Uniloc, however, has also added cases against Amazon to a couple of the many litigation campaigns that it began last year. The latest (2:18-cv-00123) is a case over a patent received from HP Enterprise, generally related to using a “palm-sized computer” to control a “service” on a network. Uniloc accuses Amazon of infringement through provision of its Alexa platform that allows, for example, certain smartphones and tablets to control other devices, including “Echo Dot, Echo Show, Echo, Tap, and video cameras”.
March 31, 2018
Rothschild’s Location Based Services Campaign Doubles in Size
JVCKenwood (2:18-cv-02462) and Thinkware Systems (8:18-cv-00492) have been added to the second litigation campaign initiated by Leigh M. Rothschild affiliate Location Based Services, LLC (LBS). A single patent generally related to organizing image data by, among other things, location metadata has now been asserted in complaints against four defendants, including Cobra Electronics and Sony in February cases filed in Delaware. LBS has accused JVCKenwood of infringement through the provision of the Kenwood Driver Reviewer for PC and Mac; Thinkware Systems, of the DashCam Viewer for PC and Mac. This second LBS litigation campaign comes as the NPE appeals to the Federal Circuit an order invalidating under Alice several of the patents asserted in its first litigation campaign, begun in February 2017.
March 30, 2018
New Mexico Inventor’s FPGA-Related Patent Asserted in Second Litigation Campaign
Sentient Sensors, LLC, an inventor-controlled New Mexico plaintiff, has filed its first lawsuit, accusing Microsemi (2:18-cv-00121) of infringement through the provision of its SmartFusion and SmartFusion2 system-on-a-chip (SoC) product lines. The complaint asserts a single patent described in court documents as generally related to a controller “that can freely be reprogrammed in the field to work with various inputs and outputs” and that “is similar to a ‘system-on-a-chip’…but…transcends the functional capability of a single integrated circuit”. This campaign is the second over the same patent, after Blemel Technologies LLC, a New York entity affiliated with General Patent Corporation (GPC), asserted it against National Instruments in a 2015 suit.
March 30, 2018
TCL Added to Ironworks Campaign as Huawei and LG Electronics Exit
Ironworks Patents LLC has filed suit against TCL Communication (TCT Mobile) (2:18-cv-02472) over three patents forming a subset of the five asserted in separate cases filed against LG Electronics (LGE) and Huawei last summer. The patents generally relate to the use of tactile alerts, audible alerts, and predictive text completion, with the accused products comprising various smartphones, including a range of Alcatel Idol models, Alcatel A30 and A50, the Alcatel Go Flip and Pop4S, and the BlackBerry KEYone. In January, the Ironworks case against LGE was dismissed with prejudice after earlier documents filed with the court suggest that the parties settled; a stay has been entered in the Huawei suit to facilitate settlement.
March 30, 2018