Singaporean plaintiff Procomm International Pte. Ltd. has begun litigating the portfolio of former CommScope patents that it received from Bison Patent Licensing, LLC in May 2023. In a new Eastern District of Texas complaint, Procomm has accused Ericsson and Verizon (Verizon Wireless) (2:24-cv-00009) of infringing five of those patents, broadly directed to telecommunications equipment, through the provision of Verizon’s 5G and other cellular networks, alleged to incorporate Ericsson’s Macro, Massive MIMO, Street Macro, and Small Cell products. If recent patterns hold, third-party litigation funding may eventually surface here.

The deadline for Lenovo (Motorola Mobility) to respond to the October 2023 complaint that Multifold International Incorporated Pte. Ltd. (MII) filed against it in Delaware has been set for December 8. Meanwhile, the plaintiff has filed a second case in the same district, accusing Alphabet (Google) (1:23-cv-01323) of infringing the same 16 patents already in suit. The former Flex patents generally relate to multi-display devices, including certain user interface functionalities and hinge connector assemblies, with infringement allegations centering on various “foldable” and “non-foldable” Pixel-series smartphones.

Singaporean plaintiff Multifold International Incorporated Pte. Ltd. (MII) has returned to US patent litigation, accusing Lenovo (Motorola Mobility) (1:23-cv-01173) of infringing 16 patents broadly directed to multi-display devices, including certain user interface functionalities and hinge connector assemblies. All 16 patents, with one more, were asserted in MII’s 2021 suit against Samsung, which ended last year after a confidential settlement agreement was inked, a few months after the pleadings stage.

In early April, RPX noted the January 2023 transfer of a ten-patent portfolio from Constellation Software subsidiary N. Harris Computer to Video Solutions Pte. Ltd., suggesting that litigation over the received assets looked imminent. Now, Video Solutions, an entity formed in Singapore in June 2022 “for the protection and licensing of these inventions and intellectual property”, has indeed filed suit, accusing Cisco (2:23-cv-00222) of infringing two of the received assets. Targeted in the new Eastern District of Texas complaint are “Cisco’s virtual collaboration products such as Webex, Jabber, Unified Communications Manager, and TelePresence Systems, and any other Cisco products, either alone or in combination, that operate in a reasonably similar manner”.

Late last year, Multimedia Technologies Pte. Ltd. opened up new litigation over a portfolio of patents received from Flex (f/k/a Flextronics) by suing LG Electronics (LGE) in the Eastern District of Texas. Now, the plaintiff, which is backed by a third-party litigation funder, has sued a second defendant in the same venue, accusing VIZIO (2:23-cv-00124) of infringing an overlapping set of ten patents from that portfolio through the provision of a variety of features—remote control functionalities, navigation bar tools, and media content formatting and delivery, among others—within smart TVs that incorporate SmartCast.

In a new Eastern District of Texas complaint, Multifold International Incorporated Pte. Ltd. (MII) has accused Samsung (2:21-cv-00371) of infringing 17 patents broadly directed to multi-display devices, including certain user interface functionalities and hinge connector assemblies. The accused products are certain foldable smartphones, including Samsung’s Galaxy Fold, the Galaxy Z Flip, the Galaxy Z Fold2, the Galaxy Z Flip3, and the Galaxy Z Fold3. This campaign is the second to hit Samsung with patents formerly held by Flex (f/k/a Flextronics).