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InnoMemory Campaign Sees Some Quick Exits Amid New Filings
New Patent Litigation
So far this summer, InnoMemory, LLC has added cases against G. Skill International (2:24-cv-00470), Winbond Electronics (2:24-cv-00497), and NEC (2:24-cv-00541), in that order and all in the Eastern District of Texas, to the litigation campaign it launched back in July 2021. Against each new defendant, the plaintiff asserts a single patent, generally related to “reducing power consumption during background operations in a memory array”, originally developed at Cypress Semiconductor but received from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV), with infringement allegations targeting the provision of a range of products that incorporate DDR4 memory technology.
July 17, 2024
Inventor-Backed Morris Routing Technologies Opens Up Networking Campaign
New Patent Litigation, TPLF
MORRIS ROUTING TECHNOLOGIES, LLC (MRT) has filed separate lawsuits against AT&T (AT&T Mobility) (4:24-cv-00623), Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile) (4:24-cv-00625), Samsung (4:24-cv-00624), and Verizon (Verizon Wireless) (4:24-cv-00626) over their various networks (e.g., 5G, fixed-line, fiber, IP, and wireless) and networking solutions. At issue is the support for segment routing (SR) technologies, including the “functionality specified in the SF RFCs” published by the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) standards setting organization. Asserted in non-overlapping subsets are 31 of the 39 wireless networking patents that currently available USPTO records suggest that MRT holds; Texas records indicate that the patents’ sole named inventor is backing this litigation.
July 13, 2024
DataCloud Campaign Nears 40 Defendants Sued with Latest Complaints
New Patent Litigation
So far in July, DataCloud Technologies, LLC, an entity associated with monetization firm IPInvestments Group LLC (d/b/a IPinvestments Group), has added suits, both in the Eastern District of Texas, against Palo Alto Networks (2:24-cv-00482) and Zscaler (2:24-cv-00504) to the litigation campaign that it began back in June 2020. Six patents are asserted against Palo Alto Networks, four against Zscaler, all six of them received from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV) and generally related to either file management or network communications. The new defendants are accused of infringement through the provision of products ranging from firewalls to website infrastructure solutions.
July 10, 2024
InnoBrilliance Resumes Litigation over Former TP Lab Patent Family
New Patent Litigation
InnoBrilliance, LLC has filed separate Eastern District of Texas lawsuits against Amazon (2:24-cv-00481), Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology (2:24-cv-00495), Panasonic (2:24-cv-00486), Philips (2:24-cv-00483), Shenzhen MTC (2:24-cv-00488), TCL (2:24-cv-00491), Walmart (2:24-cv-00492), and Zhejiang Dahua Technology (Lorex Technology) (2:24-cv-00485; 2:24-cv-00496) over the support for viewing multiple video streams in their various products, ranging from TVs to videoconferencing solutions. The defendants are accused of infringing two patents, from five asserted across this campaign since its January 2021 start, that generally relate to displaying multiple video streams on a “television system”.
July 6, 2024
Fleet Connect Adds Case Against Somfy to Its Multifront Litigation over Patents Received from IV
New Patent Litigation
Fleet Connect Solutions LLC (FCS), an Empire IP LLC plaintiff, continues to expand the campaign, begun back in December 2020 over a portfolio of patents acquired from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV), most recently suing Somfy (2:24-cv-00465) in the Eastern District of Texas over five of those assets. Targeted is the provision of “smart home hubs and ecosystems”, including the Somfy TaHoma Gateway and Somfy TaHoma Switch, that support certain features related to wireless communications, including 802.11n. FCS’s campaign is playing out in multiple venues across the country, several of which impose heightened disclosure requirements, in response to which FCS has repeatedly certified that no nonparties, including no persons, have a financial, pecuniary, or other interest in the outcome of its litigation.
July 2, 2024
Atlantic IP’s Eireog Sues Oracle in West Texas
New Patent Litigation
Eireog Innovations Limited, an Atlantic IP Services Limited plaintiff, has added a Western District of Texas case against Oracle (1:24-cv-00697) to the litigation campaign targeting with former NXP patents devices alleged to incorporate certain Intel and/or AMD CPUs. While the Eastern District of Texas cases in this campaign, filed separately against Acer, Cisco, Fortinet, HP Enterprise (HPE), IBM, Lenovo, and Palo Alto Networks, have been assigned to Chief Judge Rodney Gilstrap, the West Texas suits—against Dell, HP, and now Oracle—await assignment to a judge.
July 1, 2024
Qualcomm Employment Agreements Take Center Stage in First Headwater Research Case
In Case You Missed It
Last Thursday, Eastern District of Texas Magistrate Judge Roy S. Payne heard arguments from plaintiff Headwater Research LLC and defendant Samsung concerning cross-motions for summary judgment regarding whether Headwater has standing to sue over the patents asserted in the case. Samsung contends that Qualcomm is at least a coowner of those asserted patents. The court also heard argument concerning Samsung’s motion to sanction Headwater for failure to preserve source code at the heart of the copying claims in the case. Jury selection is set for August 5, 2024 in this, the first suit in Headwater’s campaign, which has also seen complaints filed against wireless carriers AT&T (AT&T Mobility), Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile), and Verizon (Verizon Wireless), as well as against Lenovo (Motorola Mobility).
June 30, 2024
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 Hitron Technologies (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