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GenghisComm Sues Samsung over LTE/4G- and 5G-Compliant Devices
New Patent Litigation
Inventor-controlled plaintiff GenghisComm Holdings, LLC has added Samsung (2:24-cv-00242) to its sole litigation campaign, which targets devices that are compliant with the 4G/LTE and 5G wireless networking standards. In the new Eastern District of Texas complaint, the plaintiff asserts eight patents broadly directed to wireless communications. Since launching this campaign in March 2022, GenghisComm has sued eight defendants, including ASUSTek, Continental, LG Electronics (LGE), OnePlus, and Toyota.
April 21, 2024
IdeaHub’s Pantech Secures Jury Verdict, Faces New Standing Challenge
Patent Litigation Feature
On April 1, 2024, an Eastern District of Texas jury returned a verdict in favor of plaintiffs Pantech Corporation and Pantech Wireless, LLC, awarding against OnePlus $7.41M for infringement of three standard essential patents (SEPs) and $2.85M for infringement of the other two wireless communications patents-in-suit. Two weeks earlier, the same two plaintiffs filed a second suit against OnePlus in the same district (5:24-cv-00038), there alleging infringement of eight additional patents through the provision of smartphones and other devices compliant with the LTE and/or 5G cellular networking standards. Meanwhile, in a separate Pantech case also before District Judge Robert W. Schroeder III, LG Electronics (LGE) has just filed a sealed motion to dismiss for lack of standing.
April 20, 2024
Casio Computer and Wheels Sued in Empire IP Plaintiff’s Wireless Communications Campaign
New Patent Litigation
Fleet Connect Solutions LLC (FCS), a plaintiff associated with Texas monetization firm Empire IP LLC, has expanded its sole litigation campaign with separate suits against Casio Computer (2:24-cv-00240), in the Eastern District of Texas, and Wheels (1:24-cv-01563), in the Northern District of Georgia. The plaintiff asserts 13 wireless communications patents in overlapping sets, each received from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV). FCS alleges infringement through the provision of devices that support Bluetooth, IEEE 802.11ac/b/n, and/or LTE connectivity: for Casio, certain wireless label printers and smartwatches; and for Wheels, its fleet management and vehicle telematics solutions (including certain Geotab-branded products).
April 19, 2024
Crystal Mountain Adds Suits Against Coolpad and OnePlus to Recent Campaign
New Patent Litigation
Crystal Mountain Communications, LLC has sued Coolpad Group (Yulong Computer Telecommunications Scientific) (4:24-cv-00308) and OnePlus (4:24-cv-00309) over a wide array of devices, including devices that utilize 4G modems or Wi-Fi, as well as smartphones and tablets that support “portable digital video player” and “geographic tracking” capabilities. In these new Eastern District of Texas complaints, the Ascend Innovation Management, LLC plaintiff asserts subsets of its portfolio of former Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV) patents, subsets that overlap with those asserted in the cases that launched this campaign, filed against Diamond Creek Global (TP-Link Corporation) and TP-Link Technologies, D-Link, and Unizyx (Zyxel).
April 12, 2024
Eireog Innovations Follows Up Campaign Launch by Suing Lenovo
New Patent Litigation
Eireog Innovations Limited has followed up its litigation debut last week—with separate Eastern District of Texas suits against Cisco, Fortinet, IBM, and Palo Alto Networks—by filing a case against Lenovo (2:24-cv-00239) in the same district. The plaintiff asserts the same four patents, again targeting the provision of products, this time ranging from laptops to servers, that incorporate certain AMD and Intel-based CPUs. This campaign appears to be at least the ninth from an Atlantic IP Services Limited plaintiff to hit Lenovo and/or its subsidiary Motorola Mobility.
April 12, 2024
Headwater Litigation Heats Up
New Patent Litigation
Headwater Research LLC filed its first of several cases against Samsung back in October 2022. Since Samsung filed an amended answer to plead three additional affirmative defenses (inequitable conduct and “infectious unenforceability”, lack of standing, and prosecution laches), disputes have been multiplying, including over more typical issues (e.g., amendment of infringement contentions, stay in light of inter partes review (IPR), propriety of certain expert opinions, etc.) but also over the release of US discovery for use in parallel proceedings in Germany, the production of clawed-back documents and any related waiver of privilege, the consideration of battery testing evidence, and—at the end of last week—a sealed request to sanction the plaintiff. Meanwhile, the Eastern District of Texas has handed down a claim construction order, and Headwater Research has filed yet another complaint against Samsung (2:24-cv-00228), bringing three more patents from the same large family into this fray.
April 6, 2024
Per HP, AX Wireless Did Not Exist Then—and Does Not Exist Now
In Case You Missed It
In July 2022, AX Wireless, LLC—a plaintiff formed in Texas but operating among the monetization programs of South Korea’s Ideahub, Inc. (d/b/a IDEAHUB)—sued Dell, HP, and Lenovo in separate Eastern District of Texas complaints, adding a case in the same district against Acer in February of last year. Asserted now are eight patents described by the plaintiff as “directed to wireless OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) networks and systems”, with infringement allegations targeting compliance with the Wi-Fi 6 networking standard. Ax Wireless pleaded ownership of the asserted patents, but briefing has just completed on HP’s motion to dismiss the case against it for lack of subject matter jurisdiction in which it argues that the plaintiff could not have received the patents from Applied Transform LLC in August 2021 because the plaintiff did not exist on that date.
April 6, 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
Mullen Industries Targets AR and VR Technologies in Second Campaign
New Patent Litigation
Inventor-controlled plaintiff Mullen Industries LLC has launched a second litigation campaign, suing Meta Platforms (f/k/a Facebook) (1:24-cv-00354) in the Western District of Texas. The 11 patents-in-suit are described by the plaintiff as “directed to technological advancements and safety improvements in regards to augmented reality (‘AR’) and virtual reality (‘VR’) systems”, with Meta Platforms accused of infringement through the provision of certain Oculus- and Quest-series headsets, as well as related software products (i.e., First Encounters, First Steps, First Hand, First Contact, and Horizon Worlds).
April 4, 2024
Wyoming Technology Licensing Moves Its Case Against Apple West
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