Last October, an Eastern District of Texas jury returned a mixed verdict awarding Ollnova Technologies Limited $11.5M from defendant Generac Holdings (ecobee) as a “lump sum royalty for the life of the patents” found infringed. A question concerning the second step of the Alice analysis of one of the patents-in-suit was submitted to that jury, which answered in Ollnova’s favor. Through its posttrial motions, ecobee asked Chief Judge Rodney Gilstrap to enter judgment as a matter of law in its favor as to that patent. The court has now refused, indicating that while the court ruled that its asserted claims—each considered “as a whole”—are drawn to an abstract idea as a matter of law, the jury considered the elements of those claims—individually or as an ordered combination—and reasonably found that ecobee failed to prove everything there to be merely conventional.

Eireog Innovations Limited, an Atlantic IP Services Limited plaintiff, has added a Western District of Texas case against Oracle (1:24-cv-00697) to the litigation campaign targeting with former NXP patents devices alleged to incorporate certain Intel and/or AMD CPUs. While the Eastern District of Texas cases in this campaign, filed separately against Acer, Cisco, Fortinet, HP Enterprise (HPE), IBM, Lenovo, and Palo Alto Networks, have been assigned to Chief Judge Rodney Gilstrap, the West Texas suits—against Dell, HP, and now Oracle—await assignment to a judge.

Earlier this month, District of Delaware Judge Gregory B. Williams denied a motion from BMW to intervene in a case filed by Arigna Technology Limited, a plaintiff operating under the umbrella of Dublin-based monetization firm Atlantic IP Services Limited, against Longford Capital Fund III, LP (“LCF”), an entity controlled by Chicago-based litigation finance firm Longford Capital. The court did so without prejudice, pointing to its decision the day before to stay the case to allow an arbitrator to decide whether Arigna’s claims against Longford should be subjected to arbitration. Meanwhile, District of DC Judge Rudolph Contreras has granted Susman Godfrey L.L.P.’s motion to withdraw from its representation of Arigna in a declaratory judgment action filed by BMW against it there.

A week after suing HP in the Western District of Texas, Eireog Innovations Limited, an Atlantic IP Services Limited plaintiff, has filed an Eastern District of Texas complaint accusing Acer (2:24-cv-00449) of infringing the same three patents. As has been the case since this campaign began in April, Eireog targets the provision of various computing products, including certain categories of laptops and desktops, that incorporate certain Intel and/or AMD CPUs.

Eireog Innovations Limited has sued HP (1:24-cv-00644) in the Western District of Texas over the provision of various computing products, including certain devices broadly categorized as laptops, desktops, and workstations, that incorporate certain Intel and AMD CPUs. The three patents-in-suit, among five asserted across this campaign so far, are broadly directed to interrupt prioritization in virtualized systems sharing hardware resources and cache memory control. Earlier defendants in this campaign include Cisco, Dell, Fortinet, HP Enterprise (HPE), IBM, Lenovo, and Palo Alto Networks.

This past March, RPX reported the transfer to NERA Innovations Limited, an Atlantic IP Services Limited entity, from five others operating under the umbrella of the Dublin-based patent monetization firm. Each of those assignors had previously sued multiple defendants in US federal courts over some of the assets later moved to NERA. Now, IAM has reported that NERA Innovations has put at least one of its received assets to use—but not in the US.

Atlantic IP’s Eireog Innovations Limited has filed a new Eastern District of Texas complaint against HP Enterprise (HPE) (2:24-cv-00279), asserting the same quad of former NXP patents at issue throughout its prior litigation. Chief Judge Rodney Gilstrap already presides over previous cases there, filed separately against Cisco, Fortinet, IBM, Lenovo, and Palo Alto Networks. Eireog sued Dell over the same four patents earlier this month, but in the Western District of Texas. Targeted across the campaign, as well as in the new HPE complaint, is the provision of products, ranging from laptops to servers, that incorporate certain AMD and Intel CPUs.

Plaintiffs associated with Dublin-based monetization firm Atlantic IP Services Limited continue to file new cases, week after week. Eireog Innovations Limited hit Dell (1:26-cv-00416) in the Western District of Texas over four former NXP patents last week, while Croga Innovations Limited sued Amazon (Amazon Web Services) (1:24-cv-00398) in the same district over a single former L3Harris patent. The Dell complaint focuses on the provision of a wide variety of products, including laptops, desktops, and servers, allegedly “using Intel-based CPUs (Haswell-based architecture and newer)”; the Amazon complaint, of the AWS VPC (Virtual Private cloud), AWS EC2, and AWS Network Firewall products.

Eireog Innovations Limited has followed up its litigation debut last week—with separate Eastern District of Texas suits against Cisco, Fortinet, IBM, and Palo Alto Networks—by filing a case against Lenovo (2:24-cv-00239) in the same district. The plaintiff asserts the same four patents, again targeting the provision of products, this time ranging from laptops to servers, that incorporate certain AMD and Intel-based CPUs. This campaign appears to be at least the ninth from an Atlantic IP Services Limited plaintiff to hit Lenovo and/or its subsidiary Motorola Mobility.

Eireog Innovations Limited, an Atlantic Services IP Limited plaintiff, has filed its first cases over the portfolio of about a dozen patents that it received from NXP last November. The defendants are Cisco (2:24-cv-00224), Fortinet (2:24-cv-00225), IBM (2:24-cv-00226), and Palo Alto Networks (2:24-cv-00227), each accused of infringing the same four patents over the provision of products, ranging from blade servers to firewalls, that incorporate certain AMD- and/or Intel-based CPUs. This set of defendants is familiar to Atlantic IP.