This past week, Pico Byte Systems, LLC, one of at least 16 NPEs managed by Nicolas J. Labbit, filed 25 infringement suits asserting a single networking patent (7,719,981).The NPE is targeting a wide range of consumer electronics that have Bluetooth capabilities, including smartphones, tablets, PCs, portable speakers, wireless headphones, wearables, televisions, home theater systems, and Blu-ray players. Acer, AliphCom (d/b/a Jawbone), ASUSTek, BlackBerry, GoPro, Harman, HTC, NVIDIA, Panasonic, Samsung, Sharp, Toshiba, and Yahama are among the named defendants.

As RPX reported last month, three new NPEs managed by Texas attorney Nicolas J. Labbit each acquired rights in at least one patent earlier this year. Tellus Fit, LLC has become the first of those newly formed entities to begin litigation, filing suit against thirteen defendants that make and/or sell exercise monitoring wearables, including Adidas, FitBit, LG Electronics, Microsoft, Motorola Mobility, Nike, Sony, and Timex. The complaints assert a single patent (6,976,937) generally related to a mobile exercise detection device that receives satellite positioning information.

During the first half of April 2016, RPX saw eleven patent transfers to known NPEs recorded with the USPTO. One of those transactions involved a patent that has already been asserted in litigation against operating companies.