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Nearly 40 Defendants Sued in DigiMedia Tech’s Sole Litigation Campaign
New Patent Litigation
Box (7:25-cv-00212) is the latest defendant to be added to the sole litigation campaign of DigiMedia Tech, LLC, which has seen 39 defendants sued since its start in May 2020. In the new Western District of Texas complaint, the IP Investments Group LLC (d/b/a IPinvestments Group) plaintiff asserts four former Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV) patents generally related to reducing bandwidth when uploading and deleting photos to and from a server. Box is accused of infringement through the provision of its mobile app and website, with features for deleting, moving, and uploading images on Box’s servers at issue.
May 17, 2025
Media Key Sues Radius Networks over Mobile App Updates
New Patent Litigation
Media Key LLC has followed up its early-March cases against ASUSTek, Compagnie Financiere Richemont (Montblanc International), Getac Holdings, HTC, Hytera Communications, Ledger, Mobvoi, Qisda (BenQ), Radix Technologies, RugGear, Sonim Technologies, WinMate, and Zepp Health with a suit against Radius Networks (1:25-cv-00603) in the District of Delaware. The same single patent—generally related to updating or revising a user’s content through a “keying application”—is asserted, here targeting the provision of the Flybuy Dashboard 15” Tablet. At issue are features for automatically downloading and installing mobile app updates through the Google Play Store.
May 17, 2025
Content Aware Files Another Round of East Texas Complaints
New Patent Litigation
Last November, Content Aware, LLC launched a litigation campaign with three Eastern District of Texas cases, one against each of Algolia, Home Depot, and Nosto Solutions. Only one of those three cases remains “active”, albeit with little to no docket activity. Now, Content Aware has fired off another three complaints, hitting ASOS (2:25-cv-00525), Clerk.io (2:25-cv-00526), and Target (2:25-cv-00527) in the same district over the same patent, which is generally related to a “content recognition and data categorization system”. The plaintiff accuses of infringement the provision of over the provision of “AI powered e-commerce personalization” within the defendants’ respective product recommendation systems.
May 15, 2025
Over 50 Defendants Now Sued in DataCloud’s Campaign over Former IV Patents
New Patent Litigation
1-800-Flowers (1:25-cv-00558) and Teradata (1:25-cv-00559) are the latest defendants to be added to the sole litigation campaign of DataCloud Technologies, LLC, an entity associated with Georgia monetization firm IPInvestments Group LLC. In the new District of Delaware complaints, the plaintiff asserts four patents—each received from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV)—that are broadly directed to either file management or network communications. The defendants are accused of infringement through the provision and/or use of a wide array of products, including firewall services, mobile apps, website infrastructure.
May 9, 2025
Web3AI Initiates Litigation over AI Assistants and Services
New Patent Litigation
Web3AI Technologies, LLC has begun litigating a single patent broadly directed to a “predictive compiler module configured to generate machine learning” with a suit against MicroStrategy (2:25-cv-00260) in the Eastern District of Virginia. MicroStrategy is accused of infringement through the provision of its virtual AI assistant “Auto” and related AI services—including the Auto Answers, Auto Narratives, and HyperIntelligence with Auto features—as implemented in its various software platforms (i.e., MicroStrategy AI and MicroStrategy ONE).
May 9, 2025
Pair of Texas Complaints Target Features for Reading Notifications Aloud
New Patent Litigation
MessageLoud, Inc. has sued Apple (6:25-cv-00185) in the Western District of Texas and Samsung (2:25-cv-00486) in the Eastern District of Texas, each over five patents described by the plaintiff as generally related to “delivering and reading out loud text messages, emails, and/or messages from a messenger application to a user without any user input”. Infringement allegations target the provision of a wide array of products—including automotive software (i.e., Android Auto and CarPlay), earbuds and headphones, smart watches, smartphones, and tablets—that “support or enable features that read notifications aloud without user input”.
May 8, 2025
Media Content Purchasing the Focus of Cascade Systems Campaign
New Patent Litigation
New Mexico plaintiff Cascade Systems LLC has filed suit against Elliott Capital Group (Barnes & Noble) (2:25-cv-00510), Learnfly Edtech Private (2:25-cv-00511), OKX (2:25-cv-00512), and PA Media Group (Alamy) (2:25-cv-00509) in the Eastern District of Texas, as well as against Canva (7:25-cv-00217) in the Western District of Texas. With a single patent generally related to peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing systems, the plaintiff targets the provision of a wide array of products, including eBook sharing, online course, professional design, and stock image platforms/services. At issue are features for allowing customers to license or purchase media content (through direct purchase or subscription plans), which is then transferred via a content delivery network (CDN).
May 8, 2025
Xtone Targets Alexa with “Speech-Enabled Interface” Patents
New Patent Litigation
In a new Eastern District of Virginia complaint, Xtone, Inc. has accused Amazon (Amazon Web Services, Amazon.com, Amazon.com Services) (1:25-cv-00772) of infringing six patents described as covering “ground breaking technologies that employ a highly distributed processing architecture, enabling users to access voice application services through local device executed, speech-enabled voice application service instructions”. Targeted is the provision of Amazon Alexa, Amazon Alexa+, and Amazon Alexa Voice Service (AVS), as well as supporting hardware and software products.
May 7, 2025
Inventor-Controlled Financial Services Campaign Hits Eight More
New Patent Litigation
BrowserKey, LLC has followed up its first complaints—filed separately last fall in the Eastern District of Texas against Bank of America, Charles Schwab, and Wells Fargo—with eight more in the same district, one against each of Ally Financial (2:25-cv-00442), Capital One (2:25-cv-00443), Comerica (2:25-cv-00444), First Citizens Bancshares (First Citizens Bank and Trust) (2:25-cv-00451), JP Morgan Chase (2:25-cv-00445), Morgan Stanley (2:25-cv-00446), Regions Financial (Regions Bank) (2:25-cv-00450), and UBS (UBS Financial Services) (2:25-cv-00452) over the provision of their respective “Web and Mobile Applications”. At issue is the support of “biometric, token-based, and/or passwordless authentication”, including Apple’s Touch and Face ID. BrowserKey dismissed its complaint against UBS without prejudice within a few days; UBS has filed a declaratory judgment action against BrowserKey in the District of New Jersey (2:25-cv-03796).
May 2, 2025
AccuSearch Targets Google’s Search Engine Products in First Litigation
New Patent Litigation
AccuSearch Technologies LLC has filed its first litigation, suing Alphabet (Google) (1:25-cv-00514) in the District of Delaware over “Google Search Engine Products and Services” such as the Google website, Chrome browser, and “current or legacy products and services” incorporating them. At issue are features characterized as “providing annotated Internet search results suitable for display to a user on a computing device, (e.g., PC, mobile phone, or tablet device)”. The four asserted patents are part of a larger portfolio that RPX recently reported that AccuSearch Technologies had received from the sole inventor Robert Osann, Jr. on February 24, 2024.
May 2, 2025