Following the October 2022 dismissal of its first and only patent case, filed against TP-Link in the Central District of California, SCR Networks LLC has sued Cisco (2:24-cv-00349), this time in the Eastern District of Texas. The plaintiff asserts a single patent generally related to ad-hoc wireless networking, with Cisco accused of infringement through the provision of routers that implement Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) using the OSPFv3 routing protocol.

USPTO records made public over the past few weeks have revealed assignments to a wide spectrum of NPE assignees, including two newly formed Texas entities; several affiliates of a prolific patent plaintiff; two subsidiaries of a publicly traded patent assertion entity; and multiple Irish entities formed by a third-party backed monetization firm.