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Another Patent Plaintiff Sprints Out of New Mexico Blocks
New Patent Litigation
CelluPlex LLC has filed separate Eastern District of Texas suits against Gigaset Technologies (2:24-cv-00473), Mitel Networks (2:24-cv-00471), Panasonic (2:24-cv-00474), Vtech Holdings (2:24-cv-00475), and Yealink Network Technology (2:24-cv-00472). A single patent generally related to an “interconnect device for coupling a cellular telephone to at least one wired telephone” is asserted in each complaint, with infringement allegations focused on the provision of telephone systems that support features for connecting to cellular phones via Bluetooth. CelluPlex joins several plaintiffs in forming a curious pattern.
June 28, 2024
Zoom Video Sued over “Video Class Room” Patent
New Patent Litigation
Interum Group Inc. has filed a Central District of California suit against Zoom Video Communications (2:24-cv-05397), targeting the provision of Zoom Meetings and Zoom Webinars and related products incorporating them, including Zoom One and Zoom Workplace. The sole asserted patent generally relates to providing “video classroom presentation services”, including real time video and audio streams for multiple participants, where a particular stream is selected for display to the participants based on having a higher volume or when a presenter selects it.
June 26, 2024
Encryptawave’s WPA2 Security Protocol Campaign Engulfs Four More
New Patent Litigation
This past March, Encryptawave Technologies LLC launched its first litigation by suing D-Link, Hon Hai Precision Industry (Sharp), and TCL in separate Eastern District of Texas cases. Now, the plaintiff has expanded that campaign with three more complaints in the same district, one against each of HMD Global (4:24-cv-00569), Honeywell (4:24-cv-00570), and Konica Minolta (4:24-cv-00588), and another complaint, filed in the District of Colorado, against HitronTechnologies (1:24-cv-01764). The plaintiff targets the support for the WPA2 security protocol within authentication tools in a wide array of devices (e.g., computers, label printers, smartphones, smart microwave ovens, tablets, thermostats, TVs, etc.).
June 25, 2024
Litigation over Former TP Lab Patents Proliferates
New Patent Litigation
Lab Technology LLC has added separate Western District of Texas cases against Alphabet (Google) (6:24-cv-00334), Cisco (6:24-cv-00338), Intel (6:24-cv-00332), LG Electronics (LGE), (6:24-cv-00336), Lyft (6:24-cv-00333), Microsoft (6:24-cv-00331), NVIDIA (6:24-cv-00337), and Qualcomm (6:24-cv-00335) to the litigation campaign first begun early last month with Eastern District of Texas suits filed against Samsung and Verizon and then expanded earlier this month with separate suits, also filed in the Eastern District of Texas, against Amazon, Anritsu, Bose, Ericsson, Stryker, and Quectel Wireless Solutions. The plaintiff has also filed a District of Colorado case against Zoom Video Communications (1:24-cv-01711), asserting a patent already in suit against AT&T. Currently available USPTO records have yet to reflect the assignment of any of Lab Technology’s six patents-in-suit away from TP Lab, Inc.
June 22, 2024
AI-CORE Itself Files Suit
New Patent Litigation
AI-CORE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, an Ascend Innovation Management, LLC plaintiff, has asserted seven former Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV) patents in an Eastern District of Texas complaint against Keyence (2:24-cv-00438). Targeted is the provision of vision systems and related products used for code reading, including the “(1) Keyence CV-X400 Series Intuitive Vision System; (2) Keyence SR-1000 series Autofocus 1D and 2D Code Reader; (3) Keyence SR-1000 Series Autofocus Reader & AutoID Network Navigator; (4) Keyence AutoID Network Navigator Software”.
June 17, 2024
Freedom Patents Fires Off Another Wave of Litigation, as Its Last One Recedes
New Patent Litigation
The last of its cases filed in 2023 winding down, Freedom Patents LLC has filed separate suits against ASUSTek (4:24-cv-00534), Cisco (4:24-cv-00535), Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile) (4:24-cv-00543), HP Enterprise (HPE) (4:24-cv-00536), Hon Hai Precision Industry (Sharp) (4:24-cv-00541), LG Electronics (LGE) (4:24-cv-00537), Micro-Star (4:24-cv-00538), Razer (4:24-cv-00539), Samsung (4:24-cv-00540), Sony (4:24-cv-00542), and Vantiva (4:24-cv-00544). Once again targeted, with the same three former Mitsibushi Electric (MELCO) patents, is the provision of devices (e.g., gateways, MIMO modules, TVs, etc.) that implement MIMO Wi-Fi capabilities.
June 15, 2024
ParTec Trains “Cluster Computing” Patents on Microsoft’s Azure AI System
New Patent Litigation
Patent owner ParTec AG, along with its exclusive licensee and eventual “licensing agent” BF exaQC AG (BFX), has sued Microsoft (2:24-cv-00433) over the provision of the Microsoft Azure AI system and related infrastructure. Three “cluster computing” patents are asserted in the Eastern District of Texas complaint, which outlines a series of agreements between the parties that transferred patent rights to BFX (via two subsidiaries), first in the field of “microchips and processors” and then in “the field of application of the system architecture of supercomputers (High Performance Computing), including cloud computing and the integration of quantum computers in HPC environments”, the set ultimately making BFX “currently responsible for managing, licensing, and enforcing” the patents-in-suit.
June 14, 2024
Its Last Case Transferred Out of the Western District of Texas, USTA Technology Turns to the Eastern District
New Patent Litigation
This past December, the suit that USTA Technology, LLC filed in the Western District of Texas against Alphabet (Google) in November 2022 was dismissed with prejudice from its transferee district, the Northern District of California. Before granting Google its requested convenience transfer, District Judge Xavier Rodriguez denied the plaintiff’s motion for leave to conduct venue-related discovery, noting that “[a]n exhaustive search of Google’s activity, personnel, and suppliers in the Western District of Texas for the purpose of determining the relative convenience is not an efficient use of judicial resources”. For its five-pack of new cases, one filed against each of ASUSTek (4:24-cv-00512), AT&T (AT&T Mobility) (4:24-cv-00513), Lenovo (4:24-cv-00515), LG Electronics (LGE) (4:24-cv-00516), and Samsung (4:24-cv-00517) over the same patent, USTA Technology has turned to the Eastern District of Texas.
June 8, 2024
Seven Defendants Hit with Patents from Former TP Lab Portfolio
New Patent Litigation
Last month, Lab Technology LLC began litigating patents apparently received from TP Lab, Inc. with separate suits filed against Samsung and Verizon in the Eastern District of Texas. One of those two cases already dismissed (without prejudice), the plaintiff has now filed complaints, all in the same venue, against Amazon (2:24-cv-00409), Anritsu (2:24-cv-00411), AT&T (2:24-cv-00412), Bose (2:24-cv-00413), Ericsson (2:24-cv-00414), Stryker (2:24-cv-00416), and Quectel Wireless Solutions (2:24-cv-00415). Overlapping subsets of four patents are asserted across these new complaints, with infringement allegations focused on an array of products, including smart speakers, mobile apps, and telecommunications products.
June 8, 2024
Innovations in Memory Adds Dell to Campaign to Growing Campaign
New Patent Litigation
In its third complaint, Innovations In Memory LLC (IIM) targets Dell (1:24-cv-00602) over a wide array of memory products, including various EMC, PowerEdge MX, PowerMax, PowerScale, Unity, and VMAX-series products. For this case, the plaintiff has turned to the Western District of Texas; its prior suits were filed in the Eastern District of Texas, separately against first IBM and then Cisco, both earlier in May.
June 2, 2024