Aurelian IP Management, LLC, an NPE affiliated with IP Valuation Partners LLC (IPVal), has filed three new complaints, one each against Linguamatics Solutions (2:17-cv-00209), Open Text (2:17-cv-00210), and SAS Institute (2:17-cv-00211). A single patent (6,272,495), generally related to processing free-format data to improve data management and integration, has been asserted throughout Aurelian IP’s campaign, which began in April 2016. The accused products are the defendants’ data inspection tools: Linguamatics I2E, OpenText Content Analytics, and SAS Information Retrieval Studio.

eCeipt LLC, a Texas NPE affiliated with IP Valuation Partners LLC (IPVal), has resumed its retail receipt campaign, filing four new lawsuits against Ann (2:16-cv-01105), Best Buy (2:16-cv-01106), Caleres (2:16-cv-01111), and Recreational Equipment (2:16-cv-01112). These latest cases are eCeipt’s first new litigation since the August dismissal of its case against GNC Holdings (2:16-cv-00419), which followed the dismissal of all other suits in the campaign in January-March. The plaintiff’s newest complaints assert the same, single patent-in-campaign (8,643,875), which generally relates to point-of-sale (POS) kiosks that allow a customer to select a printed or emailed store receipt. Defendants are each accused of infringement through POS systems that offer both types of receipt.

Amid a flurry of NPE creation and patent transfers, two affiliates of IP Valuation Partners LLC (IPVal) have added cases to campaigns launched earlier this year. Aurelian IP Management, LLC has filed suit against Fair Isaac (2:16-cv-01063), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) (2:16-cv-01064), and Oracle (2:16-cv-01065), accusing each of infringing a single patent (6,272,495) generally related to processing free-form data. The managing member of Aurelian IP is IPVal principal, Jonathan Szarzynski, whose colleague Adam Baumli is identified as the managing member of Retrospection Marketing LLC, the other affiliate that just added more cases, on the same day, to its own campaign. Retrospection Marketing filed suit against Best Buy (2:16-cv-01067), Kohl’s (2:16-cv-01068), and Wal-Mart (2:16-cv-01069), asserting the single patent-in-campaign (7,296,062), generally related to the display of information through a network, against the retailers’ e-commerce websites.

At the halfway point in 2016, at least five NPEs affiliated with the principals of patent monetization firm IP Valuation Partners LLC (IPVal), Adam Baumli, Jason Bourgeois, and Jonathan Szarzynski, have launched litigation. A new campaign filed this past week by ePt Records, LLC joins campaigns started earlier in the year by Aurelian IP Management, LLC; eHierarchy LLC; PositionTech LLC; and Retrospection Marketing LLC. Having added new portfolio managers to its team and new LLCs to its stable of Texas entities, several of which have recently received patent rights, it looks as if this year IPVal may surpass its seven campaigns of 2015.

Two new cases filed by Aurelian IP Management, LLC assert for the first time in litigation a single patent (6,272,495) generally related to inspecting free-format data to improve data management and integration. Aurelian accuses Coveo Software (2:16-cv-00453) and SAP (2:16-cv-00454) of infringing the patent-in-suit through their data inspection platforms (Coveo Platform and SAP Hana).