Multimodal Media LLC has expanded its sole litigation campaign, launched with suits against OPPO and ZTE in November 2021. The subsidiary of publicly traded Quest Patent Research Corporation (QPRC) has now sued Samsung (2:22-cv-00462) and TCL (2:22-cv-00463) in separate Eastern District of Texas cases. The four asserted patents—originally developed at Kirusa, a telecommunications company founded in 2001 by “a handful of technocrats from AT&T Bell Labs”—are broadly directed to various mobile communications technologies. The defendants are accused of infringement through the provision of smartphones and tablets that support certain calling and messaging capabilities.

Multimodal Media LLC, a subsidiary of publicly traded Quest Patent Research Corporation (QPRC), has filed its first litigation, suing BBK Electronics (OPPO) (2:21-cv-00436) and ZTE (2:21-cv-00437) over the provision of smartphones and tablets that support certain calling and messaging capabilities. The four asserted patents were developed by Kirusa—a telecommunications company founded in 2001 by “a handful of technocrats from AT&T Bell Labs”—and were acquired as part of a nine-patent portfolio for which QPRC reports that it paid $550K. In October, a different QPRC subsidiary hit both OPPO and ZTE, alleging infringement of patents from a separate portfolio.