The fourth NPE to receive patents formerly owned and asserted in litigation by Olivistar LLC, an entity managed by patent monetization firm IP Edge LLC, has now asserted the patent received in a third field of use. Olivistar asserted a single patent, generally related to using self-learning rules to monitor whether a measurement deviates from a previous norm and, if so, generating an alert, in a round of suits targeting fitness trackers. In August 2016, IP Edge moved the patent from Olivistar to apparent affiliate Silkeen LLC, which asserted it in another round of litigation, this one alleging infringement through the manufacture and sale of systems having environmental (i.e., temperature and humidity) sensors. Over the summer, Silkeen’s campaign has taken another turn, focusing infringement allegations on medical tracking devices, with the most recent suit hitting Medtronic (0:17-cv-04271) in the District of Minnesota.

For the sixth month in a row, a subsidiary of patent monetization firm IP Edge LLC has started a new litigation campaign. Kaldren LLC sued Citigroup (5:17-cv-00066), General Mills (5:17-cv-00067), J.D. Power and Associates (5:17-cv-00068), NeilMed Pharmaceuticals (5:17-cv-00069), Pioneer (5:17-cv-00070), Procter & Gamble (5:17-cv-00071), and SunTrust Banks (5:17-cv-00072), asserting a family of four patents (6,098,882; 6,176,427; 6,820,807; 8,281,999) generally related to encoding digital data in a machine-readable format. The new complaints target the use of QR codes in the defendants’ products and services.

A fourth NPE to receive patents formerly owned and asserted in litigation by Olivistar LLC, an entity managed by patent monetization firm IP Edge LLC, has now filed cases of its own. On August 31, 2016, Olivistar assigned the patent-in-suit (7,944,469) to Silkeen LLC, which has continued Olivistar’s campaign, albeit in a different market sector. Where Olivistar targeted fitness trackers, Silkeen has filed ten suits alleging infringement through the manufacture and sale of systems having environmental (i.e. temperature and humidity) sensors by defendants Cooper-Atlas, Grid Connect, L-Com, Mesa Monitoring, Monnit, National Instruments (Measurement Computing), Omega Engineering, Onset Computer, Primex Wireless, and TempAlert.

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.

A new Texas NPE called Reef Mountain LLC has picked up the assertion of yet another patent (8,239,481) that Olivistar LLC, an entity managed by patent monetization firm IP Edge LLC, has litigated against many defendants in the past. The new complaints target Aviglion (5:16-cv-00132), Edimax Computer (5:16-cv-00133), Flir Systems (5:16-cv-00134), Swann Communications (5:16-cv-00135), TP-Link (5:16-cv-00136), TRENDnet (5:16-cv-00137), Ubiquiti Networks (5:16-cv-00138), and Vivotek (5:16-cv-00139). The ‘481 patent generally relates to the remote control of devices, and the accused devices are networked cameras. Olivistar has now offloaded five of the six patents that it appears to have owned to four new, apparent IP Edge entities, three of which have launched litigation.