Since a noticed settlement led to the end of the last active case, against Verizon, in May of last year, the sole litigation campaign of TJTM Technologies LLC has been dormant. Now, though, the plaintiff has returned to litigation, accusing Alphabet (Google) (3:24-cv-01232) of infringing its “Driving Mode” patent through the provision of smartphones that support “Add Mode” and “Driving Mode” features. The Northern District of California case has been initially assigned to Magistrate Judge Lisa J. Cisneros.

In a new Northern District of California complaint, TJTM Technologies LLC has accused Verizon (4:22-cv-02081) of infringing its “Driving Mode” patent through the defendant’s provision of its Message+ mobile app, either “preloaded” onto phones that it sells or available for later download. Again asserted is a single patent that SMTM Technology, LLC assigned to TJTM in May 2021, with SMTM having sued first Microsoft and then Apple before the transfer; TJTM, then hitting Samsung, last July. Northern District of California Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has conditionally closed the Samsung case in light of the parties’ notice of settlement in principle, filed in January of this year.

TJTM Technologies LLC has sued Samsung (4:21-cv-05500) in the Northern District of California, targeting the “Car Mode” feature (f/k/a “Drive Mode”) on its Galaxy smartphones. The plaintiff asserts a single patent that SMTM Technology, LLC assigned to it this past May, SMTM having litigated the patent twice before, against Microsoft, briefly in 2015 and against Apple, first in 2018, then again in late 2019. The patent names Nick Bovis as its sole inventor; Bovis—the subject of recent federal criminal charges—signed for SMTM on the transfer of assets to the new plaintiff, of which his spouse, a South San Francisco dentist, is the managing member.