Lenovo (United States) Inc. (1:24-cv-01126), a US subsidiary of Lenovo, has filed suit against Universal Connectivity Technologies Inc. (UCT) in the District of Delaware. The Lenovo sub seeks declaratory judgments (DJs) of noninfringement of the eight patents that UCT asserted against Lenovo (the Hong Kong parent) in a Eastern District of Texas complaint filed in late 2023. UCT also sued Dell and HP last year. Threshold issues have dominated each case: against Dell, the production of documents created by Stout Capital in connection with a valuation of the sale of Wi-LAN Inc. (WiLAN)’s monetization business; against HP, a convenience transfer to the Northern District of California (which occurred this past summer); and against Lenovo, the exercise of personal jurisdiction over the parent entity.

Universal Connectivity Technologies Inc. (UCT) has followed up its late September 2023 cases filed separately against HP in the Western District of Texas and Lenovo in the Eastern District of Texas with a new suit against Dell (1:23-cv-01506), in the former venue. Received in a portfolio from Lattice Semiconductor in November 2021, the same eight patents are asserted against Dell, with infringement allegations targeting the provision of a wide array of devices, including laptops, desktops, monitors, docking stations, and adapters, that support various versions and features of the DisplayPort and USB standards.

Universal Connectivity Technologies Inc. (UCT) has filed its first litigation, over patents from a portfolio received from Lattice Semiconductor in November 2021. The plaintiff accuses HP (1:23-cv-01177) and Lenovo (2:23-cv-00449) of infringing the same eight patents via alleged support for various standards associated with DisplayPort and USB (e.g., USB 3.0, 4.0, and -C) by a wide array of devices, including adapters, computers, docking stations, laptops, and/or monitors.