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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
Proxense Targets LG Pay, Digital Keys, and Wi-Fi Connectivity
New Patent Litigation
With its latest lawsuit, filed against LG Electronics (LGE) (6:24-cv-00302) in the Western District of Texas, Proxense, LLC debuts in its campaign three patents generally related to securing computing systems with a “personal digital key”. Infringement allegations for these patents focus on the provision of its Ultra-Small “Digital Key Module”, allegedly developed through subsidiary LG Innotek’s participation as a “‘core’ member of the Car Connectivity Consortium”. Proxense accuses LGE of infringing four other patents, already familiar in this campaign, through the provision of LG Pay on certain mobile devices and of televisions and laptops utilizing the Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 6E, and/or Wi-Fi 7 wireless standards.
June 2, 2024
VoIP-Pal.com Sues T-Mobile and Verizon over Previously Unasserted Claims from Previously Asserted Patents
New Patent Litigation
VoIP-Pal.com Inc. (VPLM) has sued Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile) (6:24-cv-00299) and Verizon (Verizon Wireless) (6:24-cv-00298)—repeat defendants in this long-running campaign—over several familiar patents. The cases have been filed in the Western District of Texas, VPLM’s preferred venue, where a prior case against each defendant, as well as a suit against Amazon, remains active. For this pair of new complaints, VPLM turns to claims from two of the three familiar patents-in-suit, claims not asserted in prior litigation and therefore not invalidated under Alice in that litigation; as to the third asserted patent, in suit against only T-Mobile, VPLM points to three claims the patentability of which was confirmed in a recent ex parte reexamination (EPR).
June 1, 2024
Funded Hardin and Hill Campaign Picks Back Up with New Plaintiff
New Patent Litigation, TPLF
H2 Intellect LLC, an entity formed in Texas under the management of Ryan Hardin and Andrew Hill, has resumed the litigation campaign that had been proceeding with Hardin and Hill as individual plaintiffs. Three patents broadly directed to a content delivery platform for distributing programs based on the geographic location of a device are asserted in the new Eastern District of Texas complaint against IBM (2:24-cv-00367). H2 Intellect targets the support of geofencing technologies in various IBM products, including the IBM Streams, MaaS360, Max Engage with Watson, and Maximo Manage platforms.
May 17, 2024
Delaware Plaintiff Asserts Memory Patents Against Cisco
New Patent Litigation
Cisco (2:24-cv-00360) is the second defendant to be sued in the litigation campaign that Delaware plaintiff Innovations In Memory LLC (IIM) launched earlier this month with a suit against IBM. In the new Eastern District of Texas complaint, the plaintiff asserts three patents described as “concerning improvements in memory storage devices and systems”. Cisco is accused of infringement through the provision of a wide array of products, ranging from its “MDS 9000 Series Switches” to its “Unified Computing System”.
May 17, 2024
GoSecure Pegs CrowdStrike in West Texas
New Patent Litigation
Cybersecurity firm GoSecure, Inc. has sued CrowdStrike (1:24-cv-00526) in the Western District of Texas, alleging infringement of two patents generally related to using identifying unauthorized activities on a computer system attached to a computer network. The plaintiff targets the provision of CrowdStrike’s endpoint security software, including its various Falcon-series products. Outlined in the complaint are purported past interactions between GoSecure and the CrowdStrike founders, with knowledge of the asserted patents alleged to reach back to their respective dates of issuance in August 2015 and April 2018.
May 17, 2024
Embattled Damages Theory Lands Acceleration Bay a Jury Verdict in Delaware
Patent Litigation Feature
A Delaware jury has returned a verdict in favor of Acceleration Bay, LLC and against Activision Blizzard, which Microsoft acquired last October. The jury awarded the plaintiff $23.4M in combined damages, $18M for infringement through provision of the defendant’s World of Warcraft video game; and $5.4M, through its Call of Duty. Two claims, one from each of two patents (surviving from an original complaint in which six patents were asserted), were tried to the jury in a case with a long, complicated history involving, among other things, multiple claim construction disputes over what it means for a gaming network to be “m-regular” and “complete” and a “just the facts” damages theory that apparently limped across the finish line.
May 12, 2024
It’s Not Every Patent Complaint That Name Checks “The Starr Report” AND Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
New Patent Litigation
Recently formed Delaware plaintiff Sandpiper CDN, LLC has launched litigation, suing Alphabet (Google) (2:24-cv-03951) in the Central District of California. Six patents, generally related to content delivery networks and received from Level 3 Communications (acquired in 2017 by Lumen Technologies (f/k/a CenturyLink)), are asserted in the new complaint, which targets Google CDN, which the plaintiff contends that Google “uses and sells . . . via its Cloud CDN and Media CDN offerings”, including in connection with YouTube and YouTube TV. Sandpiper CDN pleads that it is “[n]amed after, and in homage to, the company that originally pioneered and developed CDN technologies in the 1990’s”, Sandpiper Networks.
May 12, 2024
WSOU Files Against Cisco in East Texas as West Texas Actions Continue to Sputter
New Patent Litigation
Since March 2020, WSOU Investments, LLC (d/b/a Brazos Licensing and Development) has been litigating patents from a large portfolio received from Nokia (including Alcatel-Lucent) in batches of cases filed separately against AMD (Xilinx), Huawei, ZTE, Microsoft, Dell (including EMC and VMware, the latter spun out and then later acquired by Broadcom), Alphabet (Google), HP Enterprise (HPE), Juniper Networks, F5 Networks, NEC, OnePlus, Canon, TP-Link, Arista Networks, Salesforce, Cisco, and NETGEAR—in that rough order. Litigation remains active against Arista, Cisco, Dell, F5, Google, Salesforce, and VMware, WSOU this past week suing Cisco (2:24-cv-00332) for a second time, targeting the provision of various networking products and services, ranging from optical line systems to switching platforms, with five patents.
May 11, 2024
Ad-Hoc Wireless Networking at Issue in SCR Networks’s Latest Complaint
New Patent Litigation
Following the October 2022 dismissal of its first and only patent case, filed against TP-Link in the Central District of California, SCR Networks LLC has sued Cisco (2:24-cv-00349), this time in the Eastern District of Texas. The plaintiff asserts a single patent generally related to ad-hoc wireless networking, with Cisco accused of infringement through the provision of routers that implement Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) using the OSPFv3 routing protocol.
May 10, 2024