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Intel Sued over Patents from a Family Familiar to Litigation
New Patent Litigation
Flash-Control, LLC has filed a first lawsuit over patents received from Si-Flash Drives, LLC, an NPE affiliated with attorney Brian Yates, roughly one year ago. The two patents now asserted generally relate to nonvolatile memory systems coupling nonvolatile storage memory with random access volatile memory, with Flash-Control accusing Intel (6:19-cv-00404) of infringement through the provision of its 760p solid state drive (SSD).
July 5, 2019
Image Sensor Campaign over Former Kingpak Patents Opens Up in Texas
New Patent Litigation
KT Imaging USA, LLC has now asserted in litigation three of the four patents that it received last December from Kingpak Technology (f/k/a International Branding Marketing), a Taiwanese distributor of semiconductor products, including CMOS image sensors. The Texas NPE filed multiple suits in the Eastern District of Texas on July 3, accusing Kyocera (4:19-cv-00488), Lightcomm Technology (4:19-cv-00486), and Panasonic (4:19-cv-00485) of infringing those three patents, which are generally related to image sensors, through the provision of certain phones and tablets that incorporate the accused image sensing technology, including Duraforce smartphones, Digiland tablets, and the Toughpad FZ-G1 tablet, respectively.
July 4, 2019
Apple Sued over Certain iOS Battery Management Features
New Patent Litigation
LBT IP I LLC has filed a District of Delaware suit against Apple (1:19-cv-01245) over five patents generally related to portable location-tracking devices. The plaintiff targets the provision of iPads and iPhones, with iOS battery management features (e.g., low power mode and related features that reduce power consumption based on the device’s tracked location or whether the device has been placed face down on a surface) at issue. A board member of Southern California-headquartered Location Based Technologies, Inc. has signed for LBT IP I as its manager and president.
July 4, 2019
Sisvel Affiliate Initiates Wireless Networking Campaign
New Patent Litigation
Aegis 11 S.A., an affiliate of Sisvel International S.A. (d/b/a Sisvel Group), has launched a litigation campaign targeting devices compatible with the 802.11ac wireless networking standard. The defendants are Belkin (1:19-cv-01161), CommScope (ARRIS, Ruckus Wireless) (1:19-cv-01164), NETGEAR (1:19-cv-01162), Roku (1:19-cv-01163), and TCL (TTE Technology) (1:19-cv-01165), each sued in the District of Delaware and against which the NPE asserts the same three former LG Electronics (LGE) patents.
July 2, 2019
IP Edge Affiliate Launches Enterprise Communications Campaign over Former Huawei Patent
New Patent Litigation
As reported last week, IP Edge LLC recently assigned a single patent generally related to sharing “presence information” to affiliate Kaleasy Tech LLC, an entity the Texas monetization firm had formed in early June. Kaleasy has now filed suit, hitting Avaya (1:19-cv-01170), Fuze (1:19-cv-01169), Mitel Networks (1:19-cv-01167), and Vonage (1:19-cv-01168), all in the District of Delaware, and NEC (3:19-cv-01555) in the Eastern District of Texas, over the provision of certain enterprise communication systems (e.g., video conferencing and chat services), including Equinox Meetings, Fuze Conferencing and Collaboration System, MiCollab, Vonage MobileConnect, and NEC UNIVERGE 3C, respectively.
June 28, 2019
Supreme Court Agrees to Revisit Whether IPR Time-Bar Decisions Can Be Appealed
Patent Litigation Feature
Last August, a divided Federal Circuit held that the voluntary dismissal of a district court complaint without prejudice does not prevent a lawsuit from triggering the statutory time bar for inter partes review (IPR). That ruling followed a series of appellate battles over the issue of whether time-bar decisions may be appealed in the first place. Now, the US Supreme Court has partly granted certiorari as to that decision in Dex Media v. Click-to-Call Technologies, agreeing to address the question of whether time-bar decisions are subject to appellate review but declining to review the Federal Circuit’s holding as to the impact of dismissals without prejudice.
June 28, 2019
Berkheimer and Aatrix Bare Their Teeth as Federal Circuit Resurrects Mobile Device Campaign
Patent Litigation Feature
The Federal Circuit has vacated and remanded a Northern District of California invalidation of multiple mobile data sync patents under Alice, reviving the litigation campaign of inventor-controlled CellSpin Soft, Inc. The accompanying opinion applies key 2018 case law that has trimmed Alice’s reach, faulting District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers for “ignoring the principle, implicit in Berkheimer and explicit in Aatrix, that factual disputes about whether an aspect of the claims is inventive may preclude dismissal at the pleadings stage under § 101”. The appellate ruling also pulled the rug out from under the district court’s award of six-figure attorney fees to defendants Canon, Fossil, and Nike, with the Federal Circuit highlighting clear error in Judge Gonzalez Rogers’s exceptional case analysis—in part, holding for the first time that the presumption of validity extends to Section 101 eligibility, contrary to the lower court’s ruling.
June 28, 2019
Software Development Kit Campaign Sees Fresh Wave of Suits
New Patent Litigation
The last of its January 2019 wave of cases having ended in dismissals in late April, Lucio Development LLC has sued Ambiq Micro (1:19-cv-00661), Ittiam Systems (6:19-cv-00282), Microsoft (6:19-cv-00283), Renesas Electronics (1:19-cv-00663), and Windbond Electronics (Nuvoton Technology) (1:19-cv-00662) over the same embedded software patent. Throughout the campaign, the NPE has targeted the defendants’ provision of software development kits (SDKs) (e.g., Microsoft’s Azure IoT Hub software development kit).
June 27, 2019
Cooling Campaign Hits IBM
New Patent Litigation
Inventor-backed Power Density Solutions LLC has sued IBM (4:19-cv-03710) in the Northern District of California, adding a second case to the litigation campaign that it began against Parker-Hannifin in the Southern District of California in March 2018. Ending a few months later, in August 2018, that suit concerned a later-issuing family member of the patent now asserted against IBM, which is accused of infringement through the provision of computer chips and components featuring ICECool, IBM’s chip-embedded cooling technology. The patents generally relate to cooling electronic components by pumping cooling fluids through “passageways”.
June 26, 2019
Biometric Authentication Campaign Launched over Former IV Patent
New Patent Litigation
Biometric Technology Holdings LLC, a Delaware entity created in early June 2019, has filed its first litigation, accusing Iris ID Systems (2:19-cv-14240) of infringing a single patent generally related to biometric authentication through comparing the results on a sensor and stored data on a “smart card”. The defendant is targeted over its provision of the IrisAccess 7000 authentication system, which comprises the iDATA EAC software and iCAM series of iris recognition cameras. Biometric Technology Holdings is an affiliate of new entrant to monetization, LF Capital Partners, LLC, which picked up a portfolio of over 50 US patent assets from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV) in December 2018.
June 25, 2019