Charter Pacific Corporation Limited and its subsidiary CPC Patent Technologies Pty Ltd have filed an affirmative lawsuit against Assa Abloy (HID Global) (6:22-cv-01170) in the Western District of Texas as HID Global (together with other related entities) move to stay a declaratory judgment action that they had earlier filed against Charter Pacific and CPC in the District of Connecticut in light of certain inter partes review (IPR) proceedings. Also a defendant in this campaign, Apple has already won such a stay, after a successful fight to have its February 2021 case transferred away from the Western District of Texas to the Northern District of California, where Judge Edward J. Davila halted the litigation, first to await institution decisions, then extended the stay now that trials have been instituted.

Assa Abloy (August Home, HID Global) has filed a declaratory judgment action in the District of Connecticut against CPC Patent Technologies Pty Ltd and its parent company Charter Pacific Corporation Limited, seeking a judgment of noninfringement for three biometric authentication patents that have been asserted in their sole litigation campaign since February 2021. Assa Abloy alleges, based on the assertion letters sent to it in 2021 and Charter Pacific’s litigation against Apple, that Charter Pacific will soon file suit against it over various smart lock products.

CPC Patent Technologies Pty Ltd., an apparent subsidiary of Charter Pacific Corporation Limited, itself a “diversified investment company with a focus in Biometric Technology” formed in Australia in 1987, has launched US litigation, suing Apple (6:21-cv-00165) and HMD Global (6:21-cv-00166) in the Western District of Texas. The new complaints target the provision of smartphones with biometric authentication features based on fingerprint or facial recognition; Apple is further accused of infringement through the use of Touch ID and Face ID in iPhones and iPads to authenticate Apple Card payments through Apple Wallet.