Vista Peak Ventures, LLC, an affiliate of Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC, has filed its first cases asserting patents from a large portfolio of former NEC patents that it acquired from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV) earlier this year. The plaintiff has targeted flat panel displays sold by Taiwanese manufacturers AU Optronics, spread across three cases (2:18-cv-00276, -00278, -00279), or Innolux (2:18-cv-00280, -00281, -00282, -00283), spread across four cases, all filed in the Eastern District of Texas. The seven new complaints together assert 21 patents from the former NEC portfolio—a total of 13 against AU Optronics and a total of 20 against Innolux.

Blue Sky Networks, LLC, a subsidiary of Monument Patent Holdings, LLC, has expanded the campaign that it began this past February by filing suit against MediaTek (1:17-cv-00656) in the Western District of Texas. The new complaint asserts the same eight patents (6,088,398; 6,484,027; 6,865,372; 7,693,542; 7,885,684; 8,019,381; 8,265,691; 8,346,169) already at issue in the campaign, all eight of them having been previously asserted against current defendants BLU Products, Huawei, and Lenovo. The accused products have been certain mobile phones, tablets, PCs, and wearables based on LTE-compliant communications (with respect to the ‘398 patent) and certain mobile phones based on their use of Bluetooth to discover nearby devices (e.g. a headset) for communication (with respect to the other seven patents). The MediaTek complaint targets chipsets used in such devices.

First-Class Monitoring, LLC has targeted the texting features associated with a second bank’s mobile services. Earlier this month, after seeking a stay to facilitate settlement in the case against CalAmp, the first defendant in the campaign, First-Class Monitoring filed suit against Bank of America (2:17-cv-00111), asserting the same patent (6,014,089) now also at issue in the new case against Citigroup (6:17-cv-00110). The ‘089 patent generally relates to the digital transmission of information using the short message service (SMS) portion of a personal communications system network.