When the litigation campaign of Torus Ventures LLC paused in September 2022, seven defendants had been sued. As of last Friday, though, that number has nearly quintupled, Torus having filed separate Eastern District of Texas complaints against A-Max Auto Insurance Agencies (2:24-cv-00498), AffordaCare Insurance Agency (2:24-cv-00501), AFNB Holdings (American First National Bank) (2:24-cv-00530), Agentra Solutions (2:24-cv-00502), Agility Bank National Association (2:24-cv-00503), Al Boenker Insurance Agency (2:24-cv-00508), AI United (2:24-cv-00506), Aimbridge Hospitality (2:24-cv-00507), Allcat Claims Service (2:24-cv-00509), Amarillo National Bank (2:24-cv-00513), American Bank Holding (2:24-cv-00514), American Contractors Insurance Group (2:24-cv-00516), Anco Insurance Managers (2:24-cv-00519), Association Member Benefits Advisors (2:24-cv-00520), Assurant (American Financial & Automotive Services) (2:24-cv-00517), Austin Bank Texas National Association (2:24-cv-00521), Aspen Insurance Holdings (AgriLogic Consulting) (2:24-cv-00505), Automobile Club of Southern California (AAA Texas) (2:24-cv-00499), Azuma Leasing (2:24-cv-00522), Behringer Harvard Real Estate Services (2:24-cv-00526), Boon-Chapman Benefit Administrators (2:24-cv-00527), Brady, Chapman, Holland & Associates (2:24-cv-00528), Brightline Dealer Advisors (2:24-cv-00529), H.U. Group Holdings (Baylor Miraca Genetics Laboratories) (2:24-cv-00523), and Spend Life Wisely (American National Bank of Texas) (2:24-cv-00518). Each defendant is targeted with a single patent over its website’s support of the TLS 1.3 security protocol.

Delaware NPE Torus Ventures LLC has launched its first litigation, suing Acer (6:21-cv-00857), Microchip Technology (6:21-cv-00856), Oracle (6:21-cv-00854), Panasonic (6:21-cv-00853), and STMicro (6:21-cv-00858) over the provision of products (i.e., laptops, cryptoprocessors, operating systems, rugged laptops, and security integrated circuits, respectively) that support the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) Trusted Platform Modules (TPM) 2.0 security specification. The plaintiff appears to be connected to a set of NPEs that has been growing steadily over the past several years.