Navog LLC has filed three cases so far in 2025: last month, one against each of Garmin (1:25-cv-20787) in the Southern District of Florida and TeleType (1:25-cv-10394) in the District of Massachusetts; and this month, one against Samsara Networks (1:25-cv-00333) in the District of Delaware. The New Mexico plaintiff asserts a single patent generally related to a “GPS and warning system for an automobile” in this campaign, which began by hitting six defendants in May 2024. Vehicle tracking and telematics systems have been targeted.

FMReps Consulting Enterprises, LLC has filed an Eastern District of Michigan complaint against Ford (2:25-cv-10658). The inventor-backed plaintiff targets the provision of the Ford eCPO (apparently now called Ford Blue Advantage), a “program for certifying pre-owned (‘CPO’) vehicles”, with two patents generally related to “certifying pre-owned vehicles”. FMReps Consulting pleads that it supplied Ford with a CPO solution (eCPO) from 2017 through 2021 but that Ford “terminated its use of the Ford eCPO and substituted a new supplier for its digital CPO needs”.

On January 14, 2025, Proxense, LLC filed a new case in its sole ongoing litigation campaign, this one against Hyundai (Genesis, Kia). The suit was assigned to Western District of Texas Chief Judge Alia Moses. Proxense moved for an intradistrict transfer to District Judge Alan D. Albright, who has presided over multiple other cases in this campaign, some to the eve of trial. Judge Moses quickly denied that motion, ruling that Proxense is “mistaken” in its belief that the overlap with other cases provides “sufficient justification” for transfer: “This Court warns the Plaintiff in making such an attempt again”.

Northern District of Texas Judges Ada Brown and Jane J. Boyle have recently denied motions to proceed without representation by local counsel, as local rules require, in cases filed last month by WirelessWERX IP LLC against Honda, Mitsubishi, and Nissan. After such a denial, the plaintiff has 14 days to get local counsel or face possible dismissal. Meanwhile, current counsel Ramey LLP has filed six additional cases in this campaign, one against each of Ford (2:25-cv-00241) and Subaru (2:25-cv-00225), in the Eastern District of Texas; Tesla (7:25-cv-00093) and Zebra Technologies (7:25-cv-00094), in the Western District of Texas; Blues (1:25-cv-10469) and HERE Technologies (1:25-cv-10418) in the District of Massachusetts; and OnStar (5:25-cv-00104), in the Eastern District of North Carolina.

Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC has announced the acquisition of a “diverse, high quality patent portfolio” from Dolby Laboratories. Per the release, the portfolio “encompasses over 2,500 patent assets that Dolby recently acquired as part of its acquisition of GE Licensing” and comprises the following “key technologies”: Display Technologies, Hybrid and Electric Vehicles, Semiconductors and Electronics, Batteries, Wireless Power, Wireless Networking, and Healthcare.

WirelessWERX IP LLC has been suing over a location tracking portfolio—so far over six of the patents from that portfolio—since October 2022. It recently added separate cases against AT&T (d/b/a FirstNet) (2:25-cv-00182) in the Eastern District of Texas; against Honda (3:25-cv-00342), Hyundai (3:25-cv-00341), Mitsubishi Motors (3:25-cv-00340), and Nissan (3:25-cv-00382) in the Northern District of Texas; against Samsara (1:25-cv-00245) in the Northern District of Georgia; against VOXX (8:25-cv-00386) in the Middle District of Florida; and against PointR (1:25-cv-10391) in the District of Massachusetts, all to the one filed against Samsung earlier in January. Several of the districts in which WirelessWERX IP has filed cases requires litigants to file a certified list of interested parties. WirelessWERX IP has purported to do so there (and elsewhere), each time represented by Ramey LLP and each time providing a certified list that appears to be, at best, incomplete.

Since launching its sole litigation campaign in May 2019, inventor-controlled Lexidine, LLC has sued nearly 20 manufacturers of brake light cameras. In its latest complaint, the plaintiff has sued its first automaker, Ford (2:25-cv-00169), in the Eastern District of Texas. The sole asserted patent generally relates to a certain vehicle camera, with Ford accused of infringement through the provision of the Center High-Mounted Stop Lamp Camera and automobiles that incorporate the camera.

Wi-LAN Inc. (WiLAN) and its subsidiary Wireless Future Technologies, Inc. have filed suit against Toyota (2:25-cv-00066) in the Eastern District of Texas, alleging infringement of seven wireless communications patents through the provision of vehicles that support LTE communications. The plaintiffs plead willfulness, alleging that WiLAN sent a letter to Toyota as early as August 2021 (over three of the patents), after which Toyota referred WiLAN to its “major TCU suppliers” LG and Continental; per the new complaint, LG apparently took a license, but Continental did not.

Hyundai and Kia (6:25-cv-00016) are the latest defendants to be added to the sole litigation campaign of inventor-backed Proxense, LLC, launched in June 2019 with a case against Nordstrom. The four patents-in-suit, two of which are newly asserted in litigation, are broadly directed to the use of a “personal digital key” to generate access to a computing device and/or resources. The defendant is accused of infringement through the provision of automobiles that support digital key technologies (i.e., Digital Key 2).

In an Eastern District of Texas complaint, Carma Technology Limited and Carma Technology Corporation have sued Uber (2:25-cv-00029) over the provision of ridesharing and delivery services, targeting features allegedly shared between the two that relate to driver matching, soliciting ratings, pickups along a route, and ride safety monitoring. The new pleading emphasizes the background of the sole named inventor for the asserted patents, Sean O’Sullivan, characterized as “a well-known and successful technologist and entrepreneur”.