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Blackbird Technologies Keeps Suing Banks in Fraud Detection Campaign
New Patent Litigation
Blackbird Tech LLC (d/b/a Blackbird Technologies) has kept its secure transactions campaign alive by filing suit against Wells Fargo (1:19-cv-01129) in the District of Delaware, asserting the same three patents seen in the NPE’s previous cases, filed against BMO Harris Bank, Capital One, and HSBC. Wells Fargo is accused of infringement by allegedly “performing a secure transaction method” through the provision of a suspicious card activity alerts service.
June 25, 2019
Dynamic Data Technologies Tags an Online Video Platform
New Patent Litigation
Dynamic Data Technologies LLC has added online video platform Brightcove as a defendant to its sole litigation campaign, which has spread to Asia and Germany since being launched in the US late last year. Brightcove, which was sued in the District of Delaware on June 24 (1:19-cv-01190), is accused of infringing a group of 15 patents generally related to image and video processing. At issue are certain video platforms with image/video processing, encoding, and decoding features, including those that support H.265 and/or VP9 video codecs.
June 24, 2019
Sisvel Kicks Off Networking Campaign over Former Nokia Patents
New Patent Litigation
Sisvel International S.A. (d/b/a Sisvel Group) has kicked off a new litigation campaign, suing AnyDATA (1:19-cv-01140), BLU Products (1:19-cv-01141), Cradlepoint (1:19-cv-01142), Honeywell (1:19-cv-01143), Verifone (1:19-cv-01144), and Xirgo Technologies (1:19-cv-01145) in the District of Delaware. The defendants are each accused of infringing the same five wireless communications patents originating with Nokia and acquired in April 2012. Sisvel has targeted the defendants’ provision of certain devices and chipsets that implement cellular networking standards (e.g., 3G modules, credit card readers, modems, routers, trackers, etc.).
June 22, 2019
Battle-Tested Patent Asserted in New Western District of Texas Suits, as Remanded Litigation Fires Back Up in the Western District of Washington
New Patent Litigation
Ancora Technologies Inc. has revived litigation of a single patent—generally related to preventing the unauthorized use of software on a computer—that has twice been the subject of an appeal before the Federal Circuit. Ancora began litigating that patent in 2008 in a case filed against Dell, HP, and Toshiba, in which Microsoft intervened. Subsequent cases filed against Apple and HTC resulted in Federal Circuit appeals, both ending in Ancora’s favor, the second of which reversed, in a November 2018 opinion, a district court Alice invalidation. Ancora now accuses LG Electronics (6:19-cv-00384) and Samsung (6:19-cv-00385), in the Western District of Texas, of infringement through the provision of a long list of mobile devices (e.g., smartphones and tablets), with the complaint calling out “over-the-air software update” features on such devices.
June 22, 2019
Individual Inventor Asserts a Familiar Patent Against Familiar Products, This Time Against Wireless Carriers
New Patent Litigation
Named inventor Joe Andrew Salazar has filed suit again in the Eastern District of Texas over the same patent that a jury there found, in a May 2018 verdict, not infringed by HTC through the provision of the HTC One M7, One M8, and One M9 smartphones. The new complaint names AT&T (AT&T Mobility), SoftBank (Sprint), T-Mobile, and Verizon (Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless) (5:19-cv-00075), accusing the wireless carriers of infringement through the provision of “smartphone products including but not limited to HTC One M7, HTC One M8, and HTC One M9 that embody wireless communications, control and sensing systems for communicating with external devices, including televisions and other devices”. Salazar alleges in that complaint infringement “at least claim 1” of the sole asserted patent; final judgment of noninfringement, based on the earlier jury verdict, was entered as to claims 1-7, 27-30, and 34.
June 21, 2019
New NPE Tags Second Wireless Carrier over Provision of Its 3G Network
New Patent Litigation
A week after hitting AT&T (AT&T Mobility, Cricket Wireless) over the same five patents, recently formed Delaware entity Cellular Evolution LLC has followed up with a similar case filed against T-Mobile (2:19-cv-00232), also in the Eastern District of Texas. The wireless communications patents form a single family originating with failed Korean mobile phone maker Pantech, Cellular Evolution alleging that each has been declared essential to the UMTS RRC Protocol (as identified in the ETSI Special Report SR 000 314). The NPE’s complaints target the two wireless providers’ respective 3G networks, with the T-Mobile complaint calling out its alleged sale of “products for use on its network”, including certain mobile devices made by Alphabet (Google), Apple, Lenovo (Motorola Mobility), LG Electronics, OnePlus, Samsung, TCL (under the Alcatel brand), and YuLong Computer Telecommunication (Coolpad).
June 21, 2019
Be Labs Files a 2019 Wave of Suits Targeting Additional Wireless Access Points
New Patent Litigation
Inventor-backed NPE Be Labs, Inc. has added two more defendants to its campaign over a pair of patents generally related to systems for wirelessly distributing media content throughout a “premises”. Cases against Rokland (1:19-cv-00111), sued in the Northern District of Florida, and Ubiquiti Networks (1:19-cv-05328) in the Southern District of New York, join active suits filed against Hitron Technologies (1:19-cv-01195) in the District of Colorado and Actiontec Electronics (2:19-cv-02636), ASRock (2:19-cv-02637), Edimax Computer (2:19-cv-02638), and Tenda Technology (2:19-cv-02639) in the Central District of California. Throughout its campaign, Be Labs has targeted routers and gateways compliant with the IEEE 802.11ac and 802.11n Wi-Fi standards.
June 21, 2019
NPE Dodges Alice Adjudication in One Case, Files Another, in Server Performance Campaign
New Patent Litigation
Accelerated Memory Tech, LLC has expanded its litigation campaign over a single patent generally related to improving server performance, suing Hulu (1:19-cv-01158) in the District of Delaware. Coming just a few weeks after the NPE notified the Northern District of Georgia of a settlement in principle in a case brought there against Barracuda Networks, the new case joins an open action against Kemp Technologies, also in Delaware. Accelerated Memory, an affiliate of Atlanta-based monetization firm IP Investments Group, LLC (d/b/a IPinvestments Group), targets Hulu’s Redis, described as a data delivery system with “features such as caching, compression, and TCP pooling which enable faster application delivery and ensure scalability”.
June 21, 2019
Continued Fortress-Uniloc Litigation Prompts Pushback Before the PTAB as Apple Wins Cancellation of Claims from Three Patents
Top Insight
The past few years have seen a steady stream of litigation over patents held by Australian NPE Uniloc Corporation Pty. Limited, a flow that has intensified since IP investment firm Fortress Investment Group LLC took over Uniloc’s assertion efforts in May 2018. Since that acquisition, Fortress has aggressively litigated patents from that portfolio through its subsidiary Uniloc 2017 LLC, hitting a variety of defendants with an ongoing barrage of new complaints. As Uniloc 2017 continues to file litigation, defendants from those new campaigns as well as existing Uniloc campaigns asserting patents now held by Fortress have fought back by pursuing validity challenges before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Three of the Board’s latest decisions were not in the NPE’s favor: On June 17, the PTAB invalidated claims from three patents in inter partes reviews (IPRs) filed by frequent Uniloc defendant Apple, which last year accused the NPE of “serially filing meritless patent infringement cases against it”. Those PTAB final decisions come as an earlier Uniloc campaign springs back to life, following a Federal Circuit decision that reversed the Alice invalidation of two of the NPE’s patents.
June 21, 2019
IP Edge Looks Ready to Assert More Former Huawei Patents
Patent Market, Patent Watch
As reported by RPX earlier this year, prolific NPE IP Edge LLC picked up a portfolio of patent assets from Huawei in February 2019. In the past three months, the Texas-based monetization firm has farmed out some of the former Huawei patents to newly created entities in that state, several of which—Bexley Solutions LLC; Devine Licensing LLC; Saros Licensing LLC; and Theta Chip LLC—have since begun litigating them. Public records indicate that more litigation stemming from that February transaction is likely coming soon.
June 20, 2019