The first week of September saw four new defendants added to a wireless communications campaign initiated by Cellular Transitions, LLC (CellTran) late last month. CellTran, an affiliate of Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC, has now hit ASUSTek, Razer, and LG Electronics (LGE) in the Central District of California; Huawei in the Eastern District of Texas; and Lenovo (with subsidiary Motorola Mobility) in Delaware. The defendants are accused of infringing two patents developed by NextWave Wireless (acquired by AT&T in 2013); CellTran’s infringement allegations focus on smartphones supporting LTE Advanced and Licensed Assisted Access (LAA).

Earlier this month, RPX pointed to newly released assignment records indicating that Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC would soon launch a campaign asserting patents acquired from Wi-LAN Inc. (WiLAN). On August 23, Dominion affiliate Cellular Transitions, LLC (CellTran) did just that, suing LG Electronics (3:18-cv-01955) in the Southern District of California over the provision of smartphones supporting LTE Advanced and Licensed Assisted Access (LAA). The asserted patents appear to have been developed by NextWave Wireless (acquired by AT&T in 2013).

USPTO records suggest that Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC could be gearing up to launch a campaign asserting patents acquired from Wi-LAN Inc. (WiLAN). The tell-tale patent transfer was executed between two Dominion affiliates in early August and includes patents developed by operating companies, including a subsidiary of AT&T.

This week, Dominion Harbor Group, LLC announced that it will acquire a portfolio of patents from Wi-LAN Inc. (WiLAN). This new partnership follows a spike in litigation campaigns initiated by NPEs managed by Dominion Harbor’s Monument Patent Holdings, LLC. As reported by RPX earlier this month, seven NPEs managed by Monument Patent Holdings filed nearly 50 patent infringement suits against operating companies in 2015—a marked increase compared to just nine cases lodged by two Monument entities (DataTech IP, LLC and Optical Tech IP) in 2014.