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Facet Technology Files Two New Complaints, One Under Seal
New Patent Litigation
Facet Technology Corp. has expanded its sole litigation campaign with a suit against Nokia (HERE Global) (2:24-cv-00269) in the Eastern District of Texas, as well as a sealed complaint against TomTom (1:24-cv-00111) in the District of New Hampshire. Against HERE Global, the plaintiff asserts two patents generally related to an “automated system” for classifying a sensed “reflective surface” as a road marker; the defendant is accused of infringement through the provision of its “HD Mapping system”, which allegedly incorporates “travel path features determined from LiDAR cloud map technology”.
April 26, 2024
Another Ramey-Repped Plaintiff . . . Misses the Call
In Case You Missed It
Litigation between MISSED CALL, LLC, a Dynamic IP Deals, LLC (d/b/a DynaIP) and Pueblo Nuevo LLC plaintiff, and Twilio has made headlines for several reasons in the past, but now it can be added to the list of matters involving a party represented by Ramey LLP that has missed an important deadline, here to respond to a motion a dismiss. Northern District of California Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler posted an order last Friday noting that MISSED CALL’s opposition (or statement of nonopposition) to Twilio’s motion to dismiss was due on April 8, 2024, but “[n]othing was filed”—ordering the plaintiff to make such a filing, or otherwise request more time, by April 22 at 2 p.m. Among its reasons for issuing the order is “to give notice to the plaintiff of the consequences of not participating in the litigation, including monetary sanctions and dismissal of the case for failure to prosecute it”. The latter consequence has now fallen upon the plaintiff: After MISSED CALL missed this latest deadline as well, Judge Beeler ordered the plaintiff to dismiss the case with prejudice.
April 26, 2024
Second Rothschild Plaintiff Sues SiriusXM
New Patent Litigation
The bulk of the Eastern District of Texas complaint that Quantum Technology Innovations, LLC just filed against Liberty Media (SiriusXM) (2:24-cv-00246) is devoted to recounting the prosecution history of the sole patent-in-suit and to pleading defensively against an Alice attack. The intensity of that focus is perhaps motivated by the SiriusXM motion challenging the patents asserted against it this past December—by Display Technologies, LLC, which, like Quantum, is a plaintiff associated with Leigh M. Rothschild—as patent-ineligibly drawn to the abstract idea of “transferring a digital media file”. There, SiriusXM cites a prior court order characterizing Display’s “goal”: to pursue a “’nuisance-value’ settlement” through a “ransom” that SiriusXM does not wish to pay.
April 20, 2024
Email Storage Suit Targets Microsoft
New Patent Litigation
Characterizing itself as an “ISO 9001:2015 certified firm that is committed to providing the highest quality of IT sales and services”, Sterling Computers Corporation has sued Microsoft (1:24-cv-00406) over the provision of its Exchange Online platform, targeting features related to “mail flow rules”. In the new Western District of Texas complaint, the plaintiff asserts a single patent generally related to an electronic messaging system with a “governance module”, the pleading characterizing the patent as covering an “object-based messaging invention” that allows each message in an email thread to be stored only once.
April 19, 2024
Datamonitor Systems Returns to Court
New Patent Litigation
More than a year after a resolution of the case filed by Datamonitor Systems LLC against IBM led to a dismissal with prejudice, the plaintiff has returned to litigation. Datamonitor has sued Cisco (6:24-cv-00186) and Sophos (6:24-cv-00185) in separate Western District of Texas complaints, over the provision of the Firewall Management Center and Unified Threat Management “intrusion detection and prevention system[s]”, respectively.
April 12, 2024
Patent Armory Adds Nearly 20 Defendants to Its First Litigation Campaign
New Patent Litigation
Last week, Patent Armory Inc. filed another wave of litigation in a campaign that has focused, at least in significant part, on customer service systems that support routing/triage tools, suing Auntie Anne’s (2:24-cv-00232), Capriotti’s Sandwich Shop (2:24-cv-00236), and Charter Communications (2:24-cv-00237) in the Eastern District of Texas; Barclays (4:24-cv-01282) in the Southern District of Texas; BBDI (6:24-cv-00176), Chuy’s Holdings (6:24-cv-00178), Dell (6:24-cv-00180), Fiesta Restaurant Group (Texas Taco Cabana) (6:24-cv-00184), Fired Up (6:24-cv-00182), PayPal (6:24-cv-00183), UNUM (6:24-cv-00191), UnitedHealthCare Services (6:24-cv-00190), and Wells Fargo (6:24-cv-00192) in the Western District of Texas; Oscar Health (1:24-cv-02816) and Mastercard (1:24-cv-02815) in the Southern District of New York; TDM IP Holder (1:24-cv-00969) in the District of Colorado; Thrivent Investment Management (3:24-cv-00236) in the Western District of Wisconsin; and United Airlines (1:24-cv-02921) in the Northern District of Illinois. Similar to its most recent complaints, a majority of the new suits cite exhibits allegedly detailing accused products that are missing from their respective dockets.
April 11, 2024
Patent Armory, Fighting Earlier Motions to Dismiss, Continues Filing into April
New Patent Litigation
Patent Armory Inc. has sued Adidas (6:24-cv-00173) and American Express (6:24-cv-00174) in a campaign that has largely focused on certain routing/triage tools within the defendants' customer service systems—though this latest batch of complaints cites exhibits allegedly detailing the accused products that are missing from their respective dockets. Appearing in the pair of Western District of Texas complaints are the same five patents that Patent Armory has asserted against a long list of defendants, including, at least originally, Hertz. There, Hertz has filed three successive motions for judgment on the pleadings, among other things challenging the patents asserted against it as patent-ineligibly drawn, under Alice, to the abstract idea of “evaluating communications data to make a routing decision”.
April 5, 2024
Pro Se Plaintiff Asserts Caller ID Patent against Google
New Patent Litigation
Proceeding pro se, individual inventor Jeffrey D. Isaacs has sued Alphabet (Google) (9:24-cv-80395) in the Southern District of Florida. The sole asserted patent, described by the plaintiff as “groundbreaking reverse phone search technology”, is broadly directed to a system for caller identification. Google is accused of infringement through the provision of mobile apps on the Google Play Store that support features for searching a CNAM (Calling Name Presentation) database to obtain a “Caller Name” associated with a phone number.
April 5, 2024
Wyoming Technology Licensing Moves Its Case Against Apple West
New Patent Litigation
Wyoming Technology Licensing LLC has voluntarily dismissed, without prejudice, its Eastern District of Texas complaint against Apple, filed in February 2024, refiling substantially the same case (1:24-cv-00347), this time in the Western District of Texas. The plaintiff again accuses Apple of infringing a single patent, generally related to analyzing an “information request” and communicating “prepared instructions” on a “consumer device display”, through the provision of natural language processing and semantic analysis tools used by the Siri voice assistant on mobile devices.
April 2, 2024
Factor2 Appears to Have Taken a Shot at USPTO Information Systems
Virtually nothing has happened on the docket of the District of Columbia case that Factor2 Multimedia Systems, LLC filed against ByteDance (TikTok) this past January. The plaintiff has now sued Amazon (1:24-cv-00337) and Snap (1:24-cv-00336), both in the Western District of Texas, as well as (perhaps) the United States of America (1:24-cv-00475, 1:24-cv-00477), the last two complaints filed in the US Court of Federal Claims but apparently misidentifying Snap as the defendant—twice. The same six authentication patents are asserted across the board, against user verification features, with the US government targeted over “the system which provides two factor authenticated access to: USPTO.gov; MyUSPTO; MyUSPTO account; Patent Electronic System; EFS-Web; PAIR; and Patent Center, including the ‘2stable’ app[,] and distributes content and authenticates users on the USPTO site”.
March 30, 2024