During May 2017, RPX completed four deals on behalf of its patent risk management network, obtaining rights to the patents involved either to end litigation against its members or to prevent it in the first place. May acquisitions occurred within the following market sectors: E-Commerce and Software, Mobile Communications and Devices, Media Content and Distribution, and Consumer Electronics and PCs.

Monument Patent Holdings, LLC subsidiary Mobile Synergy Solutions, LLC has filed a new case (6:16-cv-01223) against mobile network providers T-Mobile and Metro PCS Texas and mobile device manufacturers Coolpad, HTC, TCL (TCT Mobile), and ZTE. The complaint asserts two patents (8,494,490; 8,792,874) generally related to the access, integration, and display of information from social networking sites by a mobile device, and the accused products are visual voicemail and contact synchronization systems and features offered on the device makers’ phones using T-Mobile/MetroPCS networks. Mobile Synergy pleads that the new case follows a “limited license and service agreement” between original assignee Silent Communication and MetroPCS in November 2010.

RPX took note of seven patent transfers to NPEs recorded during the first half of September 2016. Assignees included Mobile Synergy Solutions, LLC (which has ties to Monument Patent Holdings, LLC and Dominion Harbor Group, LLC); Silkeen LLC (a newly formed NPE apparently connected to IP Edge LLC); and Blackbird Tech LLC. NPEs controlled by Monument Patent Holdings or IP Edge have collectively filed over 280 patent infringement cases so far this year, and Blackbird Tech, which has waged 11 litigation campaigns to date, has filed 30 cases in 2016.