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Dell Next Up for Atlantic IP’s Eireog; Amazon, for Its Croga
New Patent Litigation
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.
April 20, 2024
Eireog Innovations Follows Up Campaign Launch by Suing Lenovo
New Patent Litigation
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.
April 12, 2024
Atlantic IP Pegs Four Defendants Again
New Patent Litigation
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.
April 6, 2024
Charter Sued in Atlantic IP’s Optical Networking Campaign
New Patent Litigation
Atlantic IP Services Limited plaintiff Iarnach Technologies Limited has sued a third defendant in its optical networking campaign, hitting Charter Communications (Spectrum Gulf Coast, Spectrum Management) (2:24-cv-00230) over the provision of products necessary for providing DPoE v2.0-compliant networks—including “all hardware and software, optical line terminals (ONTs), and optical network units (ONUs)/optical network terminals (ONTs), transport networks, and DOCSIS back office equipment”. Iarnach previously sued AT&T (AT&T Mobility and several other subsidiaries) in a May 2023 case in which Nokia has successfully intervened and Verizon (Verizon Wireless and several other subsidiaries) in a December 2023 case, all three suits filed in the Eastern District of Texas.
April 5, 2024
March Closes with the Recordation of Plenty Notable Patent Assignments
Patent Market, Patent Watch
In addition to the announced divestiture of a large tranche of VoIP patents from Avaya to Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC, March 2024 saw several other operating companies—including DXC Technology, Huawei, and SOLiD—unload patent assets. Several NPE enterprises also moved patents around, internally or to other NPEs, seemingly in preparation for new assertion campaigns.
April 4, 2024
BMW Tries to Enter the Arigna-Susman-Longford “Tripartite” Fray
Patent Market, Patent Watch, TPLF
Briefing is now complete on a motion to intervene brought by BMW in the District of Delaware case that Arigna Technology Limited, a plaintiff operating under the umbrella of Dublin-based monetization firm Atlantic IP Services Limited, filed against Longford Capital Fund III, LP (“LCF”), an entity controlled by Chicago-based litigation finance firm Longford Capital, this past December. Arigna and Longford dispute the extent to which the latter is owed proceeds from a “global settlement” with an unnamed defendant sued across litigation run by multiple Atlantic IP-tied plaintiffs, not just Arigna. BMW has jumped in based on allegations that a “German court will be expected to award BMW from Arigna . . . between $380,000 and $1.1 million” in costs and fees there and that “Arigna has demonstrated an ability and willingness to reduce its capital abroad to insulate itself from paying fees to BMW in Germany”. BMW further argues that its involvement in this case is necessary because it is “the only party interested in shedding light on the possible violation of Irish champerty litigation financing laws” here.
March 24, 2024
Atlantic IP Moves Over 200 Patents to a New Home
Patent Market, Patent Watch
Separate assignments of patent assets from five entities operating under the umbrella of Dublin-based patent monetization firm Atlantic IP Services Limited to a sixth such entity were recently recorded and made public by the USPTO. The transfers leave each of those divestors without any US patent holdings, at least according to currently available assignment records. Two Atlantic IP plaintiffs have notified the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the change in real party-in-interest in proceedings before it.
March 23, 2024
As Goes Lionra Before It, So Goes Croga
New Patent Litigation
Croga Innovations Limited, an Atlantic IP Services Limited plaintiff, has added separate cases against Fortinet (2:24-cv-00206) and Palo Alto Networks (2:24-cv-00208) to the litigation campaign that it began in late December 2023 against IBM and expanded this past February against Cisco. A single patent is asserted in each complaint, both received by Croga from L3Harris, with infringement allegations targeting certain FortiSandbox products “when used in conjunction with any FortiGate or FortiProxy device, as well as FortiSandbox SaaS, FortiSandbox PaaS, FortiSandbox Public Cloud used either in conjunction with FortiGate or FortiProxy device or independently” and the Palo Alto Networks Remote Browser Isolation service, respectively.
March 22, 2024
BMW and Bosch File DJ Action Against Atlantic IP’s Foras Technologies in the Eastern District of Virginia
New Patent Litigation, TPLF
BMW and Robert Bosch (1:24-cv-00363) have filed a declaratory judgment (DJ) action in the Eastern District of Virginia against Foras Technologies Limited—a plaintiff associated with Dublin-based monetization firm Atlantic IP Services Limited—seeking judgments of invalidity and noninfringement of one patent generally related to protecting against “loss of lockstep” in processors. The complaint is part of the companies’ response to an affirmative complaint filed against them in the Western District of Texas, where parallel motions to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction and for pleading inadequacies have been fully briefed.
March 15, 2024
Of Many Complaints and Petitions for IPR
New Patent Litigation, TPLF
This past week, Lionra Technologies Limited, an Atlantic IP Services Limited plaintiff, filed a third case against Cisco (2:24-cv-00097) in the Eastern District of Texas, this one aiming a single former L3Harris patent at the provision of various networking switches and fabric extenders. Lionra first sued Cisco in August 2022, the same month that the plaintiff hit Fortinet, HP Enterprise (HPE), and Palo Alto Networks in separate complaints in the same district. Since then, HPE has exited the campaign, and trial has been set for May 2024 as to the rest, each of which has recently filed a motion to stay pending certain inter partes review (IPR) proceedings.
February 17, 2024