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Another Patent Plaintiff Sprints Out of New Mexico Blocks
New Patent Litigation
CelluPlex LLC has filed separate Eastern District of Texas suits against Gigaset Technologies (2:24-cv-00473), Mitel Networks (2:24-cv-00471), Panasonic (2:24-cv-00474), Vtech Holdings (2:24-cv-00475), and Yealink Network Technology (2:24-cv-00472). A single patent generally related to an “interconnect device for coupling a cellular telephone to at least one wired telephone” is asserted in each complaint, with infringement allegations focused on the provision of telephone systems that support features for connecting to cellular phones via Bluetooth. CelluPlex joins several plaintiffs in forming a curious pattern.
June 28, 2024
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
Wyoming Technology Licensing Files a “Corrected” Complaint That Seems to Need a Bit More Correction
New Patent Litigation
Wyoming Technology Licensing LLC has filed an Eastern District of Texas complaint against Verizon (2:24-cv-00467), alleging infringement of a single patent through the provision of smartphones, including those made by Alphabet (Google), Apple, or Samsung, that operate via an “intelligent voice assistant”. The claim chart attached to this complaint highlights the alleged infringement through the provision of the iPhone 15 Pro and its Siri voice assistant, characterizing that product as “representative for illustrating infringement of the other devices”, doing so despite the fact that a notice of settlement has been filed in the only prior case in this campaign, filed against Apple earlier this year.
June 25, 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
Keyless Licensing Files Its First Litigation
New Patent Litigation
Describing itself as “an inventor-owned limited liability company”, Keyless Licensing LLC has sued Samsung (2:24-cv-00464) over the provision of the Galaxy S23 smartphone. At issue in the new Eastern District of Texas complaint are various physical design features and touchscreen interface functionality related to the onscreen keyboard and swipe gestures. Asserted are three patents for which Benjamin Firooz Ghassabian is the sole named inventor.
June 20, 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
Freedom Patents Fires Off Another Wave of Litigation, as Its Last One Recedes
New Patent Litigation
The last of its cases filed in 2023 winding down, Freedom Patents LLC has filed separate suits against ASUSTek (4:24-cv-00534), Cisco (4:24-cv-00535), Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile) (4:24-cv-00543), HP Enterprise (HPE) (4:24-cv-00536), Hon Hai Precision Industry (Sharp) (4:24-cv-00541), LG Electronics (LGE) (4:24-cv-00537), Micro-Star (4:24-cv-00538), Razer (4:24-cv-00539), Samsung (4:24-cv-00540), Sony (4:24-cv-00542), and Vantiva (4:24-cv-00544). Once again targeted, with the same three former Mitsibushi Electric (MELCO) patents, is the provision of devices (e.g., gateways, MIMO modules, TVs, etc.) that implement MIMO Wi-Fi capabilities.
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
Rothschild Plaintiff Hits Google in Wearables Campaign
New Patent Litigation
Mobile Health Innovative Solutions, LLC (MHIS) has added an Eastern District of Texas case against Alphabet (Google) (2:24-cv-00437) to its sole litigation campaign, begun in December 2023 against Withings and since hitting Apple, Zepp Health, and Samsung (in that order). A single patent generally related to a wearable device with sensors that can be used to determine a user’s stress level is asserted against each defendant, with Google accused of infringement through the provision of its Pixel Watches.
June 12, 2024
Atlantic IP’s NERA Innovations Deploys Its Recently Received Assets
In Case You Missed It
This past March, RPX reported the transfer to NERA Innovations Limited, an Atlantic IP Services Limited entity, from five others operating under the umbrella of the Dublin-based patent monetization firm. Each of those assignors had previously sued multiple defendants in US federal courts over some of the assets later moved to NERA. Now, IAM has reported that NERA Innovations has put at least one of its received assets to use—but not in the US.
June 10, 2024