In its lone active litigation campaign, Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV)—via plaintiffs Intellectual Ventures I LLC and Intellectual Ventures II LLC—have filed second complaints against existing defendants American Airlines (4:25-cv-00576), in the Eastern District of Texas, and against Lenovo (1:25-cv-00834) and Southwest Airlines (7:25-cv-00252), in the Western District of Texas. In the latter forum, District Judge Alan D. Albright has agreed to hear arguments concerning supplemental construction of a term (“valid operation range”) that the defendants argue IV narrowed in parallel inter partes review (IPR) proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).

IngenioSpec LLC has filed a pair of Western District of Texas complaints against Apple (1:25-cv-00867, 1:25-cv-00877), targeting a range of features provided with AirPods (Pro) and iPhones. The plaintiff has also filed another complaint before the International Trade Commission (ITC), naming as proposed respondents Brilliant Labs, DJI, DVPR, Even Realities, Halliday, Holoswim, INMO, and NRMyW (337-TA-3833), the lot accused over the alleged importation of “eyewear products containing electronic components in the frames and/or lenses, associated components, and related charging apparatuses”.

Patent assignments recently made public by the USPTO continue to flesh out the spread of Monterey Research, LLC’s portfolio of former Cypress Semiconductor patents. Those records also note a batch of former Mitsubishi Electric (MELCO) patents changing hands, from a plaintiff passing the baton after its own litigation over the portfolio ended last June. A research operation tied to a European university has also offloaded some US computer architecture patents to suggestive hands, while the path of a portfolio of geofencing (and other mobile technology) patents seems to echo a route that previously led to litigation—litigation involving a jury award for that plaintiff as well as a shift of attorney fees to the plaintiff. Finally, an individual inventor has moved a family of peer-to-peer payments patents in a direction that could signal future monetization.

In an assignment report from earlier this year, RPX noted the December 31, 2024 transfer from named inventor Theodore (“Ted”) S. Rappaport of more than 20 US patents to Massively Broadband LLC, an entity created in Texas in February 2023. The recipient has now filed its first suit, accusing Samsung (2:25-cv-00608) in a new Eastern District of Texas complaint of infringing a dozen of those patents, bucketed as the “Intelligent Wireless Broadband Relay Patents” (five of them), the “Smart Antenna Patents (four), and the “Network Monitoring Patents” (three). As might be imagined, the list of accused products here is long.

Following a win before the International Trade Commission (ITC) this past March, Samsung (Samsung Display) sued BOE Technology three more times (2:25-cv-00412, 2:25-cv-00426, 2:25-cv-00430) in April, in the Eastern District of Texas, and once again in May, this time in the Eastern District of Virginia (1:25-cv-00908). May also saw BOE Technology (and subsidiary Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Company Limited) sue Samsung Display, also in the Eastern District of Texas (2:25-cv-00587). Since last summer, BOE Technology has been targeted in four additional campaigns over the provision of its OLED display panels.

Competitive Access Systems, Inc. (CAS) has sued Apple (5:25-cv-04595) in the Northern District of California over the provision of products, including numerous specified models/generations of iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, “that implement multipath TCP (‘MPTCP’) in conjunction with Apple’s Wi-Fi Assist feature”, which automatically switches to a cellular connection when the device has a poor Wi-Fi connection. The inventor-controlled plaintiff alleges infringement of seven patents broadly related to networking, including network path optimization, bandwidth sharing, and/or multiple links between a source and destination for bonded data transmission. Represented by Practus, LLP (out of San Francisco, California) and Stinson LLP (out of St. Louis, Missouri), CAS has filed a “Corporate Disclosure Statement” as a “Certification of Interested Parties”, but that less fulsome disclosure falls well short of the district’s requirements for such a certification.

Inventor-controlled Mimzi, LLC has filed separate Eastern District of Texas lawsuits against Ford (2:25-cv-00604), Honda (2:25-cv-00600), Hyundai (2:25-cv-00599), Mercedes-Benz (2:25-cv-00603), Nissan (2:25-cv-00601), and Subaru (2:25-cv-00602) over the provision of vehicles that support Apple CarPlay. At issue are features for reporting traffic incidents, sharing arrival times, and searching for location-based information. Mercedes is further targeted over similar features provided by the built-in MBUX (Mercedes-Benz User Experience) infotainment system in its accused vehicles.

In April, the first case filed in the litigation campaign of C47 Technologies LLC, against Samsung, was dismissed with prejudice after an earlier noticed settlement. Separate Eastern District of Texas suits against Lenovo (Motorola Mobility) and TCL remain active, with C47 Technologies now filing a Western District of Texas case against Apple (7:25-cv-00249) over the same patent, which is generally related to combining digital images from multiple cameras. The plaintiff targets the support for Portrait Mode and for LIDAR 3D scanning within smartphones with camera arrays that incorporate multiple digital cameras and/or sensors.

Integral Wireless Technologies LLC, a plaintiff associated with Texas monetization firm Empire IP LLC, has filed a second case, accusing Sonim Technologies (1:25-cv-00833) of infringing eight former Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV) patents different from the eight former IV patents that it asserted against D-Link earlier this year. Targeted is the provision of the Sonim server system, “802.11/BT compatible devices”, “Sonim 5G compatible devices”, HEVC compatible devices”, “802.11n compatible devices”, and “Bluetooth compatible devices”, with lists of particular products provided in each of those last five categories.

Damaka Inc. has filed separate Eastern District of Texas complaints against Cisco (2:25-cv-00593) and The Cigna Group (2:25-cv-00594). Six patents are asserted against Cisco, Damaka describing them as “generally cover[ing] methods for communication, and audio and video (‘A/V’) capabilities on computers (‘computer’ is inclusive of mobile devices) and computer applications”; five of those six patents are in suit against Cigna. The accused products are “all versions and variants of the Cisco Web and Mobile A/V Applications, and Cisco’s A/V SDKs, since 2019” and “all versions and variants of the MDLIVE application, including, but not limited to, MDLIVE for desktop, MDLIVE for Android, MDLIVE for iOS, and MDLIVE for iPad, since 2019”, respectively.