During March 2017, RPX completed 14 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. March acquisitions occurred within the following market sectors: Automotive, Consumer Electronics and PCs, Media Content and Distribution, Mobile Communications and Devices, Networking, and Semiconductors.

Janus Semiconductor Research, LLC has added two more cases to the campaign that it launched this past December. The NPE has asserted the same patent (5,987,620) against Intel (Altera) (2:17-cv-00109) and Kingston Technology (2:17-cv-00110) that it previously asserted in separate suits against Micron Technology, Samsung, and SK Hynix. The ‘620 patent generally relates to the distribution of varying clock signals to separate functional blocks on a chip. Janus accuses Intel alone of infringement through the manufacture and sale of its Intel Core i3, i5, and i7 series of processors and Intel and its subsidiary Altera together of infringement through the manufacture and sale of Cyclone V, Stratix IV/V/10, and Arria V/10 FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays) and SoCs (systems-on-chip). The NPE’s allegations against Kingston Technology, like those against the previous defendants, focus on the provision of certain DDR SDRAM modules and components

Janus Semiconductor Research, LLC, formed this past summer in Texas, has initiated its first litigation campaign, filing suit against Micron Technology (2:16-cv-01409), Samsung (2:16-cv-01407), and SK Hynix (2:16-cv-01410). The new complaints assert a single patent (5,987,620) generally related to the distribution of varying clock signals to separate functional blocks on a chip. Janus accuses the defendants of infringement through provision of certain DDR SDRAM modules and components.