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Pegasus Wireless Files Another Round of Suits Against Wireless Carriers
New Patent Litigation
Pegasus Wireless Innovation LLC has filed a second complaint against each of AT&T (AT&T Mobility, Cricket Wireless, New Cingular Wireless PCS) (2:25-cv-00290), Deutsche Telekom (Sprint, T-Mobile) (2:25-cv-00289), and Verizon (TracFone Wireless, Verizon Wireless) (2:25-cv-00288), here targeting the provision of their respective mobile networks and related base stations, as well as the sale of related devices (e.g., smartphones, including those manufactured by Alphabet (Google) or Motorola), that operate in accordance with the 3GPP 4G/LTE and 5G Standards. Both Ericsson and Nokia have intervened in the first round of suits against the US wireless carriers. A claim construction hearing was held there on March 13, 2025, but the litigation to date has otherwise focused on the relationship between Pegasus Wireless and third-party defendant KT, the source of the patents-in-suit.
March 16, 2025
To Ring or Not to Ring
New Patent Litigation
New Mexico plaintiff ReadyComm LLC has filed its first litigation, suing AT&T (2:25-cv-00302), Mitel Networks (2:25-cv-00303), and NEC (2:25-cv-00304) in the Eastern District of Texas. The plaintiff asserts a single patent generally related to a “telephone communication system” that can switch between an “activated” and “stand-by” mode, with the defendants accused of infringement through the provision of their respective communications platforms. At issue are features related to allowing users to add multiple devices to receive or make phone calls, associate those devices with a user account, and choose whether a device will “ring” or “remain silent”.
March 15, 2025
Virtual Keyboards the Focus of Inaugural Suit from Yet Another New Mexico Plaintiff
New Patent Litigation
Recently formed New Mexico plaintiff Televo LLC has filed its first litigation, suing OnePlus (2:25-cv-00257) in the Eastern District of Texas. The plaintiff asserts a single patent generally related to a “text entry system for an electronic device”, with OnePlus accused of infringement through the provision of the OnePlus Open smartphone. At issue is the use of the OxygenOS operating system, which supports Google’s Gboard virtual keyboard.
March 14, 2025
Device Attestation Campaign Expands in Delaware
New Patent Litigation
Bitdefender (1:25-cv-00249), Cloud Software Group (Citrix Systems) (1:25-cv-00250), and SAP (SAP America) (1:25-cv-00251) are the latest defendants to be added to the sole litigation campaign of Attestwave LLC, launched back in October 2022. In the new District of Delaware complaints, the plaintiff asserts a single patent generally related to “assuring proper execution of a software computer program” through tamper detection and validation. The defendants are accused of infringement over a wide array of products, ranging from mobile security solutions to unified endpoint management (UEM) solutions, that support device attestation tools for “verifying device and app integrity”.
March 14, 2025
Lattice Sues Cox Over Emergency Services Tools
New Patent Litigation
New Mexico plaintiff Lattice Technologies LLC has expanded its sole litigation campaign with a case against Cox Enterprises (Cox Communications) (1:25-cv-00252) in the District of Delaware. The patent-in-suit generally relates to providing emergency alerts to designated contacts on a user device, with Cox accused of infringement through the provision of the Cox Homelife Security system and related smart home devices. At issue are features for contacting a user’s emergency contacts upon the triggering of emergency services.
March 14, 2025
MOSAID Sues Infineon a Few Weeks After Litigation Against MediaTek Ends
New Patent Litigation
In its latest complaint, filed against Infineon Technologies (1:25-cv-00358) in the Western District of Texas, MOSAID Technologies Inc. (f/k/a Conversant Intellectual Property Management) targets the provision of processors (i.e., programmable systems-on-chip) and wireless connectivity SoCs (i.e., the AIROC Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Combo products) that are used in a “a variety of end-products in the communications, IoT, automotive, computer, and/or consumer electronics industries”. The plaintiff pleads that the alleged infringement has been willful, contending that “between at least November 2017 and August 26, 2024”, MOSAID and Infineon and/or Cypress (acquired by Infineon in 2020) “engaged in many discussions” regarding the infringement of MOSAID’s patents.
March 13, 2025
Campaign over Data Storage Patent Launched by Rabicoff-Repped Plaintiff
New Patent Litigation
Storage Vectors LLC has filed suit against ASUSTek (2:25-cv-00278), Kingston Technology (2:25-cv-00277), KIOXIA (2:25-cv-00276), Seagate Technology (2:25-cv-00275), Silicon Motion Technology (2:25-cv-00274), Sony (2:25-cv-00273), and Transcend Information (2:25-cv-00272), each in the Eastern District of Texas. The New Mexico plaintiff targets with a single patent—generally related to managing data on a “storage system”—the provision of a wide array of products, ranging from smartphones to solid state drives (SSDs), that support the Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 3.1 flash storage specification or 3D TLC NAND flash memory technology.
March 9, 2025
“Navigating the Competing Constraints of Parallel Proceedings May, No Doubt, Present Challenges”
Patent Litigation Feature
On Friday, the Federal Circuit upheld the cancellation by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of claims from three AliveCor patents, including the claims that had formed the basis of AliveCor’s win against Apple before the International Trade Commission (ITC) in 2022. The appeals court ruled that the PTAB’s obviousness findings are supported by substantial evidence and that AliveCor failed to preserve its evidentiary argument concerning secondary indicia of nonobviousness by not raising it with the Board. It has ordered the ITC to dismiss the results of its investigation as now moot.
March 9, 2025
Judge Albright Again Cites Local Offices as Mitigating Witness Inconvenience, Laments “Differential Treatment” of Nonpracticing Plaintiffs
In Case You Missed It
Western District of Texas Judge Alan D. Albright has docketed a public version of his order denying to Apple and Qualcomm a convenience transfer to the Northern District of California of a case filed years ago against them by Red Rock Analytics, LLC. Notable aspects of that denial track those from another recent rejection of a convenience transfer, sought by Apple in a Proxense, LLC case, including the court’s use of local defendant offices to mitigate inconvenience for its witnesses and the court’s seeming invitation for a mandamus appeal to sort out whether nonpracticing plaintiffs should continue to be “prejudiced relative to other plaintiffs” when it comes to court congestion.
March 7, 2025
In New Cases over Emergency Communications Services, e-Beacon Ignores Local Rules
New Patent Litigation
Avaya (3:25-cv-00524) and Match Group (3:25-cv-00523) are the latest defendants to be added to the sole litigation campaign that apparent New Mexico plaintiff e-Beacon LLC initiated in June 2024. In the new complaints, filed in the Northern District of Texas, the plaintiff asserts a single patent generally related to transmitting the location of a “VoIP phone” to an emergency services call center. The defendants are accused of infringement through the provision of their respective mobile apps, which feature the ability to transmit a device’s physical location when triggering emergency services. While local rules in Northern Texas impose heightened disclosure requirements on litigants, e-Beacon—represented by DNL Zito and Rabicoff Law LLC—has ignored those obligations, instead filing bare boilerplate corporate disclosures across both cases.
March 6, 2025