The past two weeks have seen juries in two popular patent venues hand down infringement verdicts. On October 16, a Delaware jury found that smartphone maker HTC infringed two cellular networking patents asserted against it by 3G Licensing S.A. and awarded $9M in damages, just the latest chapter in a slimmed-down case that has survived a trip to the Federal Circuit and back. The week before, a jury in the Western District of Texas issued a $240M verdict for StreamScale, Inc. against Cloudera, finding that the company infringed three data protection patents held by the inventor-controlled plaintiff.

StreamScale, Inc. has filed a second complaint against Cloudera (6:23-cv-00576), as an October 2023 trial in response to the first looms. Five of the six “accelerated erasure coding” patents previously asserted are again in suit, with the plaintiff alleging indirect infringement through the provision of the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP), which incorporates the Intel Intelligent Storage Acceleration Library (ISA-L) software, as well as related products that purportedly incorporate “accelerated erasure coding (EC) technology”. The last case targeted the Cloudera Data Hub (CDH), StreamScale further indicating in the new complaint that that “the EC technology in CDP is similar to CDH except that Cloudera does not ‘bundle’ ISA-L with CDP”.

StreamScale, Inc. has sued ADP, Cloudera, Experian, Intel, and Wargaming (6:21-cv-00198) in a single Western District of Texas complaint. All five defendants are accused of infringing six patents from an 11-member family generally related to “accelerated erasure coding”. Cloudera is alleged to infringe through the provision of Cloudera Distribution Including Apache Hadoop (“Cloudera CDH”) as well as Cloudera Enterprise, while ADP, Experian, and Wargaming are targeted over their use of systems incorporating Cloudera CDH. StreamScale accuses Intel of inducing infringement by the other defendants through the provision of its Intelligent Storage Acceleration Library, which is allegedly packaged and shipped with Cloudera CDH, as well as purportedly being enabled by default.