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Federal Circuit Turns Away a Pair of Additional Petitions Arising from Judge Albright’s Courtroom
Patent Litigation Feature
The Federal Circuit has denied two more petitions for writs of mandamus asking the appellate court to order Western District of Texas Judge Alan D. Albright to transfer cases before him elsewhere for convenience. In late January, the Federal Circuit turned away a similar petition from GM in litigation brought by Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV). Thus, as in the IV-GM suit, it looks like the case between Flypsi, Inc. (d/b/a Flyp) and Alphabet (Google) and the case between ViaSat and Western Digital will play out before Judge Albright, whose growing body of convenience transfer rulings—as now left undisturbed multiple times and as considered alongside that court’s solidifying pattern when it comes to claim construction—suggests a significant reason why the venue fight has become such a pivotal event for many cases landing there.
March 11, 2023
Google Sued in Flyp’s Cloud-Based Telephony Campaign
New Patent Litigation
Flypsi, Inc. (d/b/a Flyp) has filed suit against Alphabet (Google) (6:22-cv-00031) targeting the forwarding of calls via a relay number through the Google Voice telephone app with five patents broadly directed to associating multiple phone numbers with a mobile device and using different “processing rules” when connecting calls from various numbers. This case is the second in Flyp’s campaign, which began last June with a suit against Dialpad. There, Flyp originally asserted four patents, adding the fifth patent—which just issued on January 4, 2022—via a recent amended complaint.
January 26, 2022
Flyp Sues Dialpad over Solution for Managing Multiple Phone Numbers on a Single Device
New Patent Litigation
Flypsi, Inc. (d/b/a Flyp) has filed its first litigation, over a family of four patents generally related to associating multiple phone numbers with a mobile device and using different “processing rules” when connecting calls from various numbers. The plaintiff accuses Dialpad (6:21-cv-00642) of infringement through the provision of features for forwarding calls via a relay number through the Dialpad Talk cloud-based phone system. Flyp pleads that “[b]ut for rampant infringement of its patented technology, Flyp would be well positioned to play a role in” a growing cloud-based telephony market.
June 21, 2021