SynKloud Technologies, LLC, a Delaware entity formed this past summer, has filed suit over six related patents originally issuing to their sole named inventor Sheng Tai (“Ted”) Tsao. The plaintiff accuses BLU Products (1:19-cv-00553) of infringement through the provision of “all BLU smartphones and tablets that use cloud services like Google Drive”, including the VIVO One and VIVO XI+ smartphones and other devices with the following “designations or trade names”: “Advance Series, C Series, Dash Series, Energy Series, Grand Series, Life Series, Neo Series, Pure Series, R Series, Studio Series, Tank Series, Touchbook Series, and Vivo Series”. The asserted patents generally relate to a wireless device that stores data on an external storage server.

Inventor Sheng Tai “Ted” Tsao has formed a California entity, TS Patents LLC, through which he has filed suit against Yahoo (5:17-cv-01721), asserting four related US patents (8,396,891; 8,713,442; 8,799,473; 9,280,547) from the over three dozen that have issued naming Tsao as inventor. Tsao organizes his portfolio into five “families”, three of which span the patents now in suit: an Information Sharing family (the ‘891 and ‘442 patents), a Web Multitasking family (the ‘473 patent), and a Web Folder (the ‘547 patent). The plaintiff’s infringement allegations focus on Yahoo’s Tumblr platform.