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.

During the second half of August 2016, RPX saw five patent transfers to NPEs recorded with the USPTO. The assignees were Virtual Immersion Technologies LLC (controlled by Erik Stamell, of Equitable IP Corporation); Clean Energy Management Solutions, LLC (a subsidiary of Monument Patent Holdings, LLC); an NPE created by IP Valuation Partners LLC; and subsidiaries of two publicly traded NPEs—Wi-LAN, Inc. and Pendrell Corporation.

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.