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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
Funded Monetization Team Appears Up and Running
Patent Market, Patent Watch, TPLF
By now this general pattern has become familiar: the formation of an LLC in a state where a monetization outfit would like to file suit, the acquisition from an operating company of a patent portfolio over which the outfit would like to sue, the procurement of financial backing for the litigation, and ultimately, one or more complaints filed in US district court in that state over that portfolio with that funding. While some monetization teams are more open about such efforts, others seek to obscure their own identities as well as the identity of their funder. A recent assignment, and its parallels to others, raises questions about whether an unnamed team in the latter camp has been operating over the past year or so.
June 22, 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
Eireog Targets Yet More Devices Allegedly Incorporating Intel and/or AMD CPUs
New Patent Litigation, TPLF
A week after suing HP in the Western District of Texas, Eireog Innovations Limited, an Atlantic IP Services Limited plaintiff, has filed an Eastern District of Texas complaint accusing Acer (2:24-cv-00449) of infringing the same three patents. As has been the case since this campaign began in April, Eireog targets the provision of various computing products, including certain categories of laptops and desktops, that incorporate certain Intel and/or AMD CPUs.
June 18, 2024
Emergency Services at Issue in New Campaign
New Patent Litigation
e-Beacon LLC has filed suit against ADT (2:24-cv-00436) in the Eastern District of Texas and against Apple (6:24-cv-00314) and Uber (6:24-cv-00313) in the Western District of Texas. Asserted is a single patent generally related to transmitting the location of a “VoIP phone” to an emergency services call center, with infringement allegations focused on the support of 911 emergency services in their respective products, including the Apple Watch Series 9, Uber mobile app, and SoSecure by ADT: Safety App, respectively.
June 14, 2024
Atlantic IP’s Eireog Sues HP, Too
New Patent Litigation, TPLF
Eireog Innovations Limited has sued HP (1:24-cv-00644) in the Western District of Texas over the provision of various computing products, including certain devices broadly categorized as laptops, desktops, and workstations, that incorporate certain Intel and AMD CPUs. The three patents-in-suit, among five asserted across this campaign so far, are broadly directed to interrupt prioritization in virtualized systems sharing hardware resources and cache memory control. Earlier defendants in this campaign include Cisco, Dell, Fortinet, HP Enterprise (HPE), IBM, Lenovo, and Palo Alto Networks.
June 12, 2024
Denial of Summary Judgment Is Not Appealable After Trial on the Merits, Reminds Federal Circuit
Patent Litigation Feature
The Federal Circuit has upheld the $20M verdict in favor of EcoFactor, Inc. in its smart thermostat campaign, turning away several challenges from trial court defendant Alphabet (Google). Western District of Texas Judge Alan D. Albright had denied a motion for summary judgment challenging an asserted patent under Alice, opting to send related questions to the jury, which found in EcoFactor’s favor. Google appealed Judge Albright’s denial of summary judgment, which turned out to be the wrong path, the court commenting in its recent opinion that “[d]enial of summary judgment decides only one thing—that the case should go to trial”.
June 10, 2024
IDEAHUB Acquires New Portfolio, Takes Aim at Micron Technology and Others
Patent Market, Patent Watch
Publicly available USPTO assignment records indicate that MIMIRIP LLC, an Ideahub, Inc. plaintiff, picked up a large portfolio of assets from SKhynix in early March of this year. MIMIRIP has now filed two Eastern District of Texas complaints against Micron Technology (2:24-cv-00405, 2:24-cv-00407), both under seal, as well as a complaint before the International Trade Commission (ITC) (337-TA-3751). Proposed respondents include Dell, HP Enterprise (HPE), HP, Kingston Technology, Lenovo, and Tesla, with infringement allegations—with respect to a dozen of those former SKhynix patents—targeting Micron-manufactured DRAM and NAND memory devices, as well as devices containing them, “such as laptops, tablets, servers, solid-state drives, self-driving automotive computers, and automotive media control units”.
June 8, 2024
VideoLabs Tests Interplay Between Parallel District Court and ITC Actions
In Case You Missed It, TPLF
After a loss before the International Trade Commission (ITC), VideoLabs, Inc. has returned to a Western District of Texas case stayed before Judge Alan D. Albright to try again, under what it argues are changed factual circumstances. In a motion to the lift the stay and begin trial court proceedings, the plaintiff argues that ITC findings are not binding on district courts and that “a change in ownership of family member patents and the filing of terminal disclaimers” undermines the ITC’s determination that two of its asserted patents are invalid for obviousness-type double patenting. Defendant HP opposes this broader request and seeks a modification of the stay, one that solely permits the court’s consideration of “early dispositive motions on invalidity”.
June 7, 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