A Western District of Texas jury has returned a verdict for AlmondNet, Inc. in a suit that it filed with its subsidiary Intent IQ, LLC against Amazon (Amazon.com Services, Amazon Web Services) in August 2021. The jury found two claims, one from each of two tried patents, infringed and not proven invalid, awarding $121.95M in damages, well below the plaintiffs’ reported ask. Presiding Judge Alan D. Albright also submitted to the jury the “issue as to conventionality” of the asserted claim of one of the patents, which patent claim the court had ruled in pretrial proceedings is directed to an abstract idea.

Trial is set to begin on June 10, 2024 in the Western District of Texas courtroom of Judge Alan D. Albright in a case that AlmondNet, Inc. filed, with its subsidiary Intent IQ, LLC, against Amazon (Amazon.com Services, Amazon Web Services) back in August 2021. In an April 2024 “Omnibus Order Regarding Pretrial Motions”, the court denied an Amazon motion challenging one asserted patent under Alice (because, per the court, its asserted claims are not directed to an abstract idea) and will now send to the jury the “issue as to conventionality” of the asserted claim of another patent. Meanwhile, in a new complaint filed in the same venue, AlmondNet and Intent IQ have accused Oracle (6:24-cv-00303) of infringing two other targeted advertisement patents. The accused products are Oracle’s BlueKai Data Management Platform, Oracle Data Cloud, Oracle ID Graph, and Oracle Marketing Cloud.

As part of its targeted advertising campaign, AlmondNet, Inc. and its subsidiary Intent IQ, LLC sued Microsoft in August 2021 in the Western District of Texas, adding a case there against Microsoft and its subsidiary Xandr in November 2022. Earlier this year, the court consolidated the two actions in response to an agreement by which the number of asserted patents across the combined action would be reduced to four. Now, the plaintiff pair has accused Microsoft subsidiary LinkedIn (1:23-cv-01373) of infringing 11 patents, including the same four remaining in suit against Microsoft and Xandr, but doing so in Delaware.

Following a February suit against Viant Technology, AlmondNet, Inc. and its subsidiary Intent IQ, LLC have sued Comcast (Beeswax.io, FreeWheel Media) (1:23-cv-00220) in the District of Delaware. The four asserted patents are broadly directed to targeted advertisements, with the defendants accused of infringement through the provision of the FreeWheel advertisement platform. At issue are features related to data collection and ad personalization.

In its targeted advertising campaign, AlmondNet, Inc. and its subsidiary Intent IQ, LLC have filed a new trio of cases against existing defendants Amazon (6:22-cv-01204), Meta Platforms (Facebook) (6:22-cv-01205), and Microsoft (6:22-cv-01206), together with an amended complaint in each of the cases filed against those defendants in August 2021, all in the Western District of Texas. The amended complaints drop patents on the eve of a claim construction hearing set for November 30 before District Judge Alan D. Albright, while the new original complaints add some of those patents back into the litigation, together with others. Litigation against Samsung (AdGear Technologies) is also proceeding in West Texas, while the dispute with Roku has moved forward in the District of Delaware in response to a declaratory judgment action filed there.

The targeted advertising campaign of AlmondNet, Inc. and its subsidiary Intent IQ, LLC ballooned this past week, the plaintiffs filing separate suits against new defendants Amazon (6:21-cv-00898), Facebook (6:21-cv-00896), and Samsung (AdGear Technologies) (6:21-cv-00891), as well as additional suits against repeat defendants Microsoft (6:21-cv-00897) and Roku (6:21-cv-00876), the latter focusing on Roku’s acquisition of Dataxu (in late 2019). Nearly 20 patents have now been asserted in this campaign—not AlmondNet’s first—since its launch in 2016.

AlmondNet, Inc., together with its subsidiary Intent IQ, LLC, have sued Roku (6:21-cv-00731) over the provision of its OneView advertisement platform, targeting a variety of certain data collection and advertisement methods; in a separate suit, Roku has filed a declaratory judgment complaint against AlmondNet and Intent IQ (1:21-cv-01035), seeking a judgment of noninfringement (of the same patents) by the same OneView advertisement platform. Both lawsuits were filed on July 15, AlmondNet’s in the Western District of Texas; Roku’s, in the District of Delaware.

AlmondNet, Inc., this time without its two operating subsidiaries, has sued Verizon (Oath Holdings) (1:18-cv-00943) over a single targeted advertisement patent. The complaint accuses Oath Holdings, including Oath’s “BrightRoll and former Yahoo units”, of infringement through the provision of “demand side platforms, whether labeled Oath, Yahoo, Brightroll, or other”. In the crosshairs are the platforms’ various features related to online advertising, including those that build profiles on a given website’s users based on the users’ activity on that site, and those that allow third-party advertisers to bid for access to that data. The patent-in-suit belongs to a family already in suit in a March 2016 case brought by AlmondNet (with subsidiaries Datonics, LLC and Intent IQ, LLC) against Yahoo—before the acquisition of its Internet operations by Verizon—over 11 total patents.