Charter Communications (Spectrum Mobile) (1:21-cv-01371) and UVNV (Mint Mobile) (1:21-cv-01370) are the latest defendants to be added to the 5G devices campaign of Decatur Licensing LLC, an apparent IP Edge LLC plaintiff. Decatur asserts a single former Huawei patent generally related to “obtaining radio access network information”, targeting in these new complaints the provision of 5G smartphones from Lenovo (Motorola Mobility). Last week also saw the dismissal of separate cases against Rohde & Schwartz and Sony from the campaign, which has been litigated in typical IP Edge fashion.

IP Edge LLC plaintiff Decatur Licensing LLC has resumed litigation targeting the provision of various devices with 5G support, after what appears to have been a false start earlier this year. The NPE has sued Cisco (Linksys) (1:21-cv-00745), Digi International (1:21-cv-00743), HTC (2:21-cv-00712), Oceus Networks (1:21-cv-00744), and Sony (1:21-cv-04691) over a single former Huawei patent generally related to “obtaining radio access network information”. That patent’s final three digits are 476; in January 2021, Decatur Licensing filed separate suits against ASUSTek, Lenovo (Motorola Mobility), LG Electronics (LGE), and Samsung over a Kyocera patent ending in 467—suits that were all dismissed without prejudice in early March.

Decatur Licensing LLC, a plaintiff apparently affiliated with Texas monetization firm IP Edge LLC, has kicked off a new mobile device campaign, accusing ASUSTek (3:21-cv-00761), Lenovo (Motorola Mobility) (1:21-cv-00108), LG Electronics (1:21-cv-00106), and Samsung (1:21-cv-00765) of infringing a patent that issued in July 2017 to Kyocera. The patent generally relates to managing communications between a mobile device and one base station with a wider coverage area as well as another with a smaller coverage area, where the mobile device uses multiple carriers (frequency bands) at once when communicating with the base stations. Decatur Licensing accuses the defendants of infringement through the provision of smartphones with 5G support.