Last month, IoT Licensing, LLC sued Snap One (3:22-cv-00652) in the Western District of North Carolina, adding a second case to the litigation campaign that it began in the District of Massachusetts against Schneider Electric (1:22-cv-11358) this past August. In both suits, IoT Licensing targets, with the same two wireless communications patents, the provision of devices that support the Zigbee or Z-Wave wireless mesh networking standards: for Snap One, including controllers, dimmers, motion/contact sensors, thermostats, fan speed controllers, garage door modules, sirens, switches, and repeaters; and for Schneider Electric, certain EcoStruxure and SmartStruxure-series products, including controllers, switches, and relay antennas.

Texas plaintiff Ax Wireless LLC has launched its first litigation campaign, suing Dell (2:22-cv-00277), HP (2:22-cv-00279), and Lenovo (2:22-cv-00280), each in the Eastern District of Texas. The NPE asserts four patents broadly directed to wireless communications, with the defendants accused of infringement through the provision of devices (e.g., appliance, computers, IoT devices, networking devices, smartphones, and tablets) that are compliant with the Wi-Fi 6 networking standard. Ax Wireless appears to be connected to a web of NPEs that has been steadily growing over the years.