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Ramey LLP Seeks to Maintain Appeals, Apparently to Defend Against Any Sanctions in the Court Below
In Case You Missed It, TPLF
Last Friday, the Federal Circuit gave CTD Networks LLC, a plaintiff under the apparent control of “AiPi, LLC (f/k/a AiPi Solutions)”, and district court defendant Alphabet (Google) a week “to file an updated status report indicating how they believe this appeal should now proceed” now that Whitestone Law has apprised the court that it has no plans to enter an appearance in the matter. On February 2, 2024, CTD’s current counsel, Ramey LLP, was allowed to withdraw from the appeal conditioned on the entry of appearance of new counsel for CTD Networks within 30 days. Per Ramey LLP’s emergency motion to withdraw, “In short, AiPi and Whitestone appear to be purposely prejudicing Ramey LLP’s and CTD Network’s [sic] interests in the pending appeal at the Federal Circuit by not filing an appeal brief”.
April 21, 2024
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
Texas Jury Returns $142M Verdict for G+ Communications in Damages Retrial
Patent Litigation Feature
In late January 2024, an Eastern District of Texas jury returned a $62.5M verdict in G+ Communications LLC’s case against Samsung, finding infringement for two of three asserted patents—and characterizing those damages as a running royalty, as opposed to a lump sum. However, in early March, Chief Judge Rodney Gilstrap vacated the damages award and ordered a retrial on that issue for the two infringed patents, finding that the jury had “probably” been confused on the difference between those two types of damages because neither party had discussed this distinction at trial. Now, a second jury has returned a new verdict on damages, this one totaling $142M.
April 20, 2024
Dell Next Up for Atlantic IP’s Eireog; Amazon, for Its Croga
New Patent Litigation
Plaintiffs associated with Dublin-based monetization firm Atlantic IP Services Limited continue to file new cases, week after week. Eireog Innovations Limited hit Dell (1:26-cv-00416) in the Western District of Texas over four former NXP patents last week, while Croga Innovations Limited sued Amazon (Amazon Web Services) (1:24-cv-00398) in the same district over a single former L3Harris patent. The Dell complaint focuses on the provision of a wide variety of products, including laptops, desktops, and servers, allegedly “using Intel-based CPUs (Haswell-based architecture and newer)”; the Amazon complaint, of the AWS VPC (Virtual Private cloud), AWS EC2, and AWS Network Firewall products.
April 20, 2024
TCS Divestitures Drive Recent Litigation Campaigns
Patent Market, Patent Watch
Two transfers of patents away from TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) dated last year were recently recorded with the USPTO. A February 2023 batch of six US patents to MDSP Technologies LLC was recorded on the same day as the May 2023 divestiture of nine others to ALD Social LLC. MDSP litigated two of its received assets in a brief campaign running from April to September and involving Alphabet (Google), Apple, Garmin, Samsung, and TomTom. ALD Social has also litigated patents received from TCS—against Alert Media, Apple, AT&T, Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile), Google, Verizon, and Verkada—but not the ones moved as part of that May 2023 transfer.
April 20, 2024
The Virtual Bezel Is Back
New Patent Litigation
Onscreen Dynamics, LLC has filed a 2024 round of complaints, suing AutoNation (AN Dealership Holding, AutoNation Financial Services) (2:24-cv-00249), Carmax (Carmax Auto Superstores) (2:24-cv-00247), Carvana (2:24-cv-00248), Enterprise Holdings (EAN Holdings) (2:24-cv-00251), and Snell Motor Company (Land Rover Frisco) (2:24-cv-00250) over the sale of automobiles that incorporate infotainment systems with certain touchscreen interfaces. The asserted patents generally relate to a device having a touchscreen display with a “virtual bezel”—i.e., a portion of the display, generally a border area, that responds differently to gestures or touches than does the rest of the display.
April 20, 2024
Eastern District of Texas Holds Steady as Top Patent Venue
In Case You Missed It
The Eastern District of Texas landed atop the venue chart for overall patent litigation (i.e., for all plaintiff types) in Q1 2024, a rank it has held since Q2 of last year. In second place, with roughly half as much overall litigation as East Texas, was the District of Delaware, which was the most popular district for operating companies in Q1 but took a distant third place for NPE litigation, apparently in light of heightened corporate and lit funding transparency in the courtroom of Chief Judge Colm F. Connolly there.
April 20, 2024
IV Files Against Tesla in Austin . . . and in Waco
New Patent Litigation
Intellectual Ventures II LLC, a subsidiary of Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV), has added two Western District of Texas cases against Tesla (1:24-cv-00390, 6:24-cv-00188), one in the Austin Division and the other in the Waco Division, to the automotive wing of one of the longest-running litigation campaigns, active since 2011. The same dozen patents are asserted in the two complaints, with infringement allegations targeting the provision of automobiles and related products that support the Autopilot and Connectivity services, as well as the use of Kubernetes within the “Tesla Infrastructure”.
April 20, 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