Intel (MobilEye, MobilEye Vision Technologies) (0:24-cv-04149) has filed a declaratory judgment action against Facet Technology Corp. in the District of Minnesota. It concerns the same two patents that Facet asserted against MobilEye Global in an Eastern District of Texas case filed this past January. There, in early September, District Judge Robert W. Schroeder III allowed Facet Technology 60 days of venue-related discovery, with leave to amend thereafter, given the defendant’s successful motion to dismiss the original complaint “as lacking a plausible venue allegation”. Elsewhere, Facet Technology’s standing to sue has been challenged.

W&Wsens Devices, Inc. has filed an Eastern District of Texas complaint against Samsung (2:24-cv-00854), alleging infringement of five patents described as generally related to “semiconductor photodetectors”. With four of those patents, the inventor-controlled plaintiff targets the provision of CMOS image sensors, as well as products (e.g., computers, digital cameras, smartphones, and tablets), including those of Samsung and those manufactured by third parties Alphabet (Google) and Motorola, incorporating those sensors. With the fifth patent, W&Wsens Devices targets the provision of “Time-of-Flight” (ToF) CMOS image sensors.

Bell Semiconductor, LLC (Bell Semic) has filed a new Eastern District of Texas complaint against Cisco (4:24-cv-00937), this time adding allegations as to a second patent and shifting away from the last highlighted accused product (“the Cisco CATALYST C9200L system board with the Cisco 80-1069-02 semiconductor IC package”) to a different one (“the Cisco 08-1072-03 semiconductor integrated package and the Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card 1457 system board” allegedly containing it). Bell Semic’s widespread litigation, having hit numerous defendants, now remains active only as to Cisco, NXP Semiconductors, and TI, although a stay has been imposed in the case against TI in light of the parties’ representation that they have reached a resolution.

One well-established monetization operation has announced the acquisition of a portfolio of patents from Innolux, while another is the recipient of yet another batch of patents assembled and divested from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV). Meanwhile, a newer monetization team has picked up a set of patents from an operating company in a move suggesting that litigation over the received assets is coming.

Palisade Technologies, LLP has filed its first litigation, suing Micron Technology (7:24-cv-00262) over the provision of solid-state storage devices and memory modules, including LPDDR5 memory integrated circuits (ICs) and solid state drives (SSDs). At issue is the incorporation of 3D NAND, USB-C ports, and voltage regulators. Five patents are asserted in the new Western District of Texas complaint, Palisade having received its patent assets in transfers a few weeks ago from Western Digital and its SanDisk subsidiaries.

A Western District of Texas trial has ended in Apple’s favor in litigation from inventor-controlled plaintiff Identity Security LLC (f/k/a Integrated Information Solutions Corporation). On October 4, a jury returned a verdict that the defendant had not infringed four patents through the provision of the Secure Enclave system-on-chip (SoC) incorporated in various Apple devices, including Apple Watch, Apple TV, HomePod, iMac iPhone, and iPad-series products, as well as devices that feature the Apple T2 Security Chip.

More than three years after defendants Apple and Qualcomm filed a motion for a convenience transfer, plaintiff Red Rock Analytics, LLC has filed a fifth supplemental brief with Western District of Texas Judge Alan D. Albright. That brief attempts to liken the posture of the Red Rock case to that of Resonant Systems, Inc. (d/b/a RevelHMI), in which the Federal Circuit turned away a petition for a writ of mandamus that would have required Judge Albright to transfer a RevelHMI case against Apple to the Northern District of California. Apple and Qualcomm have responded to Red Rock’s latest supplemental; Judge Albright—more than three years and ticking—has yet to rule.

In addition to the suggestive transfer of a portfolio of chip packing patents, reported here last week, publicly available USPTO assignment records reveal a transacted portfolio of “cloud computing and datacenter” patents taking shape in new hands, as well as 30 issued US patents generally related to biometric fingerprint sensors moving to a vehicle formed last year under the management of an individual with a patent monetization past.

This past January Redstone Logics, LLC sued MediaTek and NXP Semiconductors in a pair of Western District of Texas complaints. Now, the Texas plaintiff has added a case against Qualcomm (7:24-cv-00231), asserting the same patent already in suit, a patent generally related to a multicore processor with two set of processor cores where each has its own supply voltage and an independent PLL (“phase-locked loop”) clock signal. Infringement allegations target “products comprising one or more SoC each comprising two or more sets of processors implementing or based on the DynamIQ Shared Unit architecture (e.g., ARMv8.2, ARMv9, ARMv9.2, and successors) or big.LITTLE architecture, including without limitation the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and the Snapdragon 835 Mobile Platform”.

ServStor Technologies, LLC, an IPInvestments Group LLC (d/b/a IPinvestments Group) plaintiff, has sued Broadcom (2:24-cv-00761) and MediaTek (2:24-cv-00760) in separate Eastern District of Texas complaints. Broadcom is targeted over the provision of certain “servers, routers, and systems-on-a-chip (‘SoC[s]’) that manage internet connections and storage partitions”; MediaTek, of certain “microchips, servers, routers, ethernet switches, [SoCs], and ASICs”. At issue are features such as “accelerat[ing] the transmission of packets across a network”, “communicatively coupl[ing] an apparatus to a network”, and “transmit[ting] and encapsulat[ing] packets to a target device”.