Per prior RPX reporting, a consolidation of patent assets to Cloud Controls LLC earlier this year suggested a new monetization strategy. Now, Cloud Controls has indeed filed suit, accusing Samsung (2:24-cv-00925) of infringing five patents received through the provision of a wide array of products, including the Samsung Cloud platform, Samsung Galaxy-series smartphones, and Samsung Sound Tower-series speakers. At issue are features ranging from predictive keyboard tools to the Quick Share service.

A new Eastern District of Texas complaint represents Encelion LLC’s first litigation, the New Mexico plaintiff accusing Samsung (2:24-cv-00942) of infringing two patents generally related to sensing the human pulse rate. Claim charts attached to the pleading highlight the provision of Samsung’s Galaxy Watch7, with a focus on its pulse rate monitoring features.

ERR Content IP LLC has filed suit in the Southern District of Texas against Comcast (4:24-cv-04385) over the provision of XFINITY Home. Asserted is the same patent—broadly directed to “providing a main content” on a first device and “extra content” synchronized to the main content on a second device—already in suit via August 2024 cases against Amazon, in the Western District of Texas, and against LG Electronics (LGE), in the Northern District of Texas. Per the claim chart attached to the ERR Content IP complaint, the identified first device here is a smartphone; the second device, a TV.

Last week, Genghiscomm Holdings, LLC filed a second complaint against Samsung (2:24-cv-00901) in the Eastern District of Texas. Asserted is a single patent from the same family to which the eight patents already in suit belong, this one broadly directed to discrete Fourier transform-spread orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (DFT-spread OFDM) used in LTE uplink. Samsung has answered the complaint in the prior suit, in which the court has set a schedule and moved the matter into discovery.

Ford (2:24-cv-12904) and Subaru (2:24-cv-00909) are the latest defendants to be added to the sole litigation campaign of VDPP LLC, which has seen over 70 defendants sued since its launch in August 2019. The three patents-in-suit, asserted in overlapping sets, are broadly directed to generating and/or displaying a modified video. The defendants are accused of infringement through the provision of their respective backup camera systems. Meanwhile, prior defendant TP-Link has filed a declaratory judgment (DJ) action (8:24-cv-02456) against VDPP, seeking a judgment of noninfringement as to one of those three asserted patents. Despite a recent judgment holding VDPP and its counsel, Ramey LLP, jointly and severally liable for more than $207K in shifted attorney fees, VDPP has once again selected Ramey LLP to represent it in its new affirmative infringement complaints.

Last month, Mesa Digital LLC hit existing defendants Acer (3:24-cv-02521), Amazon (7:24-cv-00271), Ingenico (1:24-cv-04996), Microsoft (7:24-cv-00255), and Zebra Technologies (4:24-cv-03818) with additional complaints, while associated plaintiff Ortiz & Associates Consulting, LLC (OAC) sued new defendant Sharp Imaging (7:24-cv-00271). Meanwhile, briefing in OAC’s appeal of a $117K shift of attorney fees, in an earlier case against VIZIO, appears to have completed. There, OAC argues, among other things, that Northern District of Texas Judge David C. Godbey erred by adding exceptionality onto the previous “sanction” of dismissal with prejudice; by refusing OAC leave to amend to plead compliance with marking requirements, which it contends do not apply to NPEs; and by finding OAC’s litigation of the case unreasonable based on a failure to serve either infringement contentions or discovery requests and on a $149K settlement offer, made in a campaign that has seen myriad other cases dismissed in early stages.

Stingray IP Solutions, LLC has filed an Eastern District of Texas case against HP Enterprise (HPE) (2:24-cv-00868) that targets the provision of “networking, IoT, and security solutions, products, components, software, services, and processes related to same that generally connect to other devices in a network or other networks using a wireless protocol, such as ZigBee and/or Wi-Fi”. The Acacia Research Corporation plaintiff describes the three asserted patents as covering “various aspects of monitoring, detecting intrusions, and encrypting and decrypting wireless communications networks”. The exemplary accused products include access points, controllers, gateways, and related accessories and software products.

A couple of weeks ago, NetMomentum LLC launched its first litigation, suing ASUSTek over a patent entitled “Semi-transparent RFID tags” while hitting Panasonic, VTech Holdings, and Yealink Network Technology with a single patent generally related to a base station that handles both mobile and landline telephone calls. Now, the Delaware plaintiff has sued Samsung (2:24-cv-00888) over the patent already in suit against ASUSTek, as well as over a second patent, broadly directed to a mobile device with displays on both sides. Accused products highlighted in the claim charts attached to the new Eastern District of Texas complaint are the Galaxy S23 Ultra and Galaxy Flip 6, respectively.

After suing Toyota in early October, AutoConnect Holdings LLC has filed a complaint against General Motors (2:24-cv-00877), also in the Eastern District of Texas, asserting ten patents that overlap with those already in suit. Again at issue is the provision of a wide array of automobiles, vehicle systems (e.g., in-vehicle multimedia systems), mobile apps, and related hardware and software components, with a focus on features like the support for Apple’s CarPlay and Google’s Android Auto platforms, security measures, user device profiles, and more.

Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV), through Intellectual Ventures I LLC and Intellectual Ventures II LLC, has filed an Eastern District of Texas case against American Airlines (4:24-cv-00980) and a Western District of Texas against Southwest Airlines (7:24-cv-00277), both asserting six patents of disparate origin. Three of those patents are already in suit in the Eastern District of Texas, against Comerica, JP Morgan Chase, and Liberty Mutual, pulling these complaints into an existing campaign that targets the use of Docker, Kafka, Kubernetes, and/or Spark. With these new cases, IV expands its infringement allegations to include the use of Hadoop, as well as the provision of Wi-Fi on board airplanes.