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Streaming Platforms Targeted in Latest Quantum Technology Innovations Complaints
New Patent Litigation
So far this month, Quantum Technology Innovations, LLC (QTI)—a plaintiff associated with monetization figure Leigh M. Rothschild—has expanded its sole litigation campaign with suits against EchoStar (DISH Network) (2:24-cv-00420) in the Eastern District of Texas and AMC Networks (1:24-cv-04745), BroadwayHD (1:24-cv-04679), and Warner Bros. Discovery (1:24-cv-04750) in the Southern District of New York. At issue across each complaint is a single patent generally related to a server running a computer program for distributing content over a network. The defendants are accused of infringement through the provision of their respective streaming services and related apps (Sling TV, AMC+, BroadwayHD, and Max, respectively). At issue are features such as streaming content at various quality levels, live TV streaming, servers and content delivery networks (CDNs), and streaming analytics.
June 28, 2024
User Authentication Campaign Initiated in Both East and West Texas
New Patent Litigation
Secure Matrix LLC has launched its first litigation, suing A Holdings (Line) (2:24-cv-00456), Bank of America (2:24-cv-00455), Binance (2:24-cv-00457), IBM (2:24-cv-00458), Rakuten (2:24-cv-00460), and Sony (2:24-cv-00459) in the Eastern District of Texas, as well as Microsoft (6:24-cv-00328) and Zoho (6:24-cv-00327) in the Western District of Texas. Asserting a single user authentication patent, the plaintiff targets the provision of websites, apps, and/or other software that allow users to authenticate by scanning a QR code with a mobile device.
June 21, 2024
Never-Search Shifts from Mapping Golf to Suing Google
New Patent Litigation
Never-Search, Inc. has filed its first litigation, suing Alphabet (Google) (5:24-cv-03733) over the provision of Google Maps, targeting features related to finding and displaying information about points of interest. The eight patents now in suit are generally related to storing and updating “points of interest” (along with related information) and displaying those “points of interest” on a map. The plaintiff has indicated in a bare corporate disclosure that it has no parent and no publicly held corporation owns ten percent or more of its stock, but it has yet to file a certificate of interested parties, as required by Northern District of California Local Rules.
June 20, 2024
Subsidiary RAZDOG Picks Up Media Carousel Campaign
New Patent Litigation
In a new Northern District of California complaint, Delaware plaintiff RAZDOG HOLDINGS LLC accuses Amazon (Twitch Interactive) (5:24-cv-03638) of infringing two patents generally related to providing a server-based “slide tool” for viewing content from multiple sources, and also a remote “tool box” for writing code to control the slide tool and gather analytics data from it. Targeted is the Twitch website’s support of video “carousels” allowing users to horizontally scroll between streamed videos, along with features including video tags, content selection algorithms, ad insertion, chat, analytics, and user bans.
June 18, 2024
Samsung to Seek Roughly $26M in Fees and Costs in Staton Techiya Case
In Case You Missed It, TPLF
In early May 2024 after a bench trial, Eastern District of Texas Chief Judge Rodney Gilstrap ruled that the affirmative patent claims of Staton Techiya, LLC against Samsung should be dismissed with prejudice because those patents are unenforceable due to unclean hands. Per the court, “The clear and convincing weight of the evidence shows that the patent claims underlying this litigation are infected by the theft of Samsung’s sensitive confidential and attorney-client privileged information”, a “theft” enabled by the plaintiff’s engagement with its “litigation-agent” (and sometime coplaintiff) Synergy IP Corporation. In light of this ruling, Samsung has filed a motion for entry of judgment, facilitating appeal, and a motion to set a schedule for the court to consider a motion for fees and costs, which Samsung estimates to be around $26M.
June 17, 2024
Trio of New Defendants Added to Visual Search Campaign
New Patent Litigation
Last month, Pointwise Ventures LLC added separate cases against Alphabet (Google) and Amazon to the litigation begun against nine others this past March, and now the plaintiff has sued Meta Platforms (6:24-cv-00320), Salesforce (6:24-cv-00321), and Walmart (2:24-cv-00443) in the same campaign. The plaintiff asserts a single patent generally related to a “pointing and identification” device, with infringement allegations targeting the support of visual search tools within a range of products.
June 15, 2024
Its Case Against Meta Stayed in California, Mobile Data Technologies Files Again Back in Texas
New Patent Litigation, TPLF
Pleading that it “specializes in mobile technologies and social media solutions”, Mobile Data Technologies LLC has, in a new Eastern District of Texas complaint, accused Samsung (2:24-cv-00435) of infringing four patents broadly pertaining to managing content on mobile devices. All four patents were asserted in MDT’s earlier suit, against Meta Platforms, which was transferred for convenience out of the Western District of Texas to the Northern District of California, where it was stayed to await the conclusion of multiple inter partes review (IPR) proceedings begun in response to petitions that Meta had filed.
June 14, 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
West Texas Jury Returns a Roughly $120M Verdict for Plaintiffs in Targeted Advertisement Campaign
Patent Litigation Feature
A Western District of Texas jury has returned a verdict for AlmondNet, Inc. in a suit that it filed with its subsidiary Intent IQ, LLC against Amazon (Amazon.com Services, Amazon Web Services) in August 2021. The jury found two claims, one from each of two tried patents, infringed and not proven invalid, awarding $121.95M in damages, well below the plaintiffs’ reported ask. Presiding Judge Alan D. Albright also submitted to the jury the “issue as to conventionality” of the asserted claim of one of the patents, which patent claim the court had ruled in pretrial proceedings is directed to an abstract idea.
June 14, 2024
Seven Defendants Hit with Patents from Former TP Lab Portfolio
New Patent Litigation
Last month, Lab Technology LLC began litigating patents apparently received from TP Lab, Inc. with separate suits filed against Samsung and Verizon in the Eastern District of Texas. One of those two cases already dismissed (without prejudice), the plaintiff has now filed complaints, all in the same venue, against Amazon (2:24-cv-00409), Anritsu (2:24-cv-00411), AT&T (2:24-cv-00412), Bose (2:24-cv-00413), Ericsson (2:24-cv-00414), Stryker (2:24-cv-00416), and Quectel Wireless Solutions (2:24-cv-00415). Overlapping subsets of four patents are asserted across these new complaints, with infringement allegations focused on an array of products, including smart speakers, mobile apps, and telecommunications products.
June 8, 2024