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Earlier 2024 Case Bogged Down over Service of Process, Monument Peak Ventures Sues Vivotek
New Patent Litigation
Monument Peak Ventures, LLC (MPV) has filed its second suit of 2024, accusing Vivotek (6:24-cv-00361) of infringing four patents acquired from Eastman Kodak in a new Western District of Texas complaint. The Dominion Harbor Enterprises LLC plaintiff targets facial recognition, object detection, and video summarization features within various image capturing or processing products. The only other active suit in this campaign, filed against TCL (TCT Mobile) in early January 2024, has become mired in a dispute over the proper service of process on foreign defendants, Magistrate Judge J. Baxter Boone recently ordering the defendants to provide an address for certain Chinese entities “to avoid an unnecessary game of ‘whack-a-mole’”.
July 11, 2024
Time for Another Review of Recently Recorded Patent Assignments
Patent Market, Patent Watch
RPX’s last look at notable patent assignments considered the movement of assets to Ueran Technology LLC from Huawei; to AX Wireless, LLC from SOLiD; to VideoLabs, Inc. from DCX US Agility Platform LLC, a subsidiary of DXC Technology; to Flash Uplink LLC from its publicly traded parent Quest Patent Research Corporation (QPRC); to various entities from Ascend Innovation Management, LLC entities; and to Nera Innovations Limited from multiple entities associated with Atlantic IP Services. It is time for a review of additional notable transfers recorded since then.
May 12, 2024
Transacted VoIP Portfolio Appears in USPTO Assignment Records
In Case You Missed It
Publicly available USPTO assignment records now reflect the assignment of more than 700 patent assets from an operating company to Arlington Technologies, LLC, a subsidiary of Texas monetization firm Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC. The transaction is dated March 29, 2024, with the portfolio described as “valuable technology resources for companies worldwide that want to provide the best possible VOIP service and care to their customers”.
April 14, 2024
Avaya Divests VoIP Portfolio to Dominion Harbor
Patent Market, Patent Watch
Though the deal has yet to be fully reflected in public USPTO assignment records, Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC announced on April 3, 2024 that its subsidiary Arlington Technologies, LLC has acquired a “significant portfolio of patents” related to “pioneering voice over internet protocol (VOIP) technology and include more than 675 families, totaling over 1,500 individual patent assets”. The source is Avaya, described in Dominion’s press release as “a global leader in customer experience and communications solutions”. Per David Pridham, Dominion’s chairman and CEO, in that release, “While these patents are no longer core to Avaya’s cloud-based strategy, they will serve as valuable technology resources for companies worldwide that want to provide the best possible VOIP service and care to their customers”.
April 5, 2024
Dominion Harbor Continues Campaign over Former American Express Patents
New Patent Litigation
Liberty Peak Ventures, LLC (LPV), an entity associated with Texas monetization firm Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC, has sued MasterCard (1:24-cv-20455) in the Southern District of Florida over products that “facilitate, maintain, transact, authenticate, validate, authorize, clear, settle, and/or process financial data, financial transactions, mobile payments, contactless payments, and/or online payments using Mastercard Transaction Instruments (e.g., Mastercard Cards) and related access to Mastercard’s payment products, methods, and/or services (e.g., solutions, systems, devices, networks, APIs, software development kits, and/or other product solutions)”. Since launching this litigation campaign in July 2021, the plaintiff has sued nine defendants—including Charles Schwab, Comerica, Fiserv, Regions Financial, Visa, and Zions Bancorporation (Amegy Bank National) and asserted 19 former American Express patents, ten in its latest complaint. At issue are features such as compliance with certain EMV standards, RFID technology, and tokenization.
February 16, 2024
Dominion’s Monument Peak Ventures Closes Out 2023 with a Pair of New Suits
New Patent Litigation
Last month, Monument Peak Ventures, LLC (MPV) sued Tesla (6:23-cv-00750) over seven patents from a large former Eastman Kodak portfolio, targeting the provision of “image processing and recognition technology” incorporated in its automobiles, including Autopilot, Autosteer, Full Self-Driving, Sentry Mode, and other related features. Now, the Dominion Harbor Enterprises LLC plaintiff has hit Samsara (1:23-cv-05687) over the provision of the Samsara Connected Operations Cloud system, focusing on “Video-Based Safety, Vehicle Telematics, Apps and Driver Workflows, Equipment Monitoring, and Site Visibility” features, which allegedly “integrate[] AI-powered analytics and cloud-based processing, storage, and access to capture and analyze imagery at customer sites and identify important content for review and action”. Three of those former Eastman Kodak patents are now in suit against Samsara.
December 16, 2023
Dominion’s SPV Sues HMD Global as TP-Link Contests Personal Jurisdiction
New Patent Litigation
Sovereign Peak Ventures, LLC (SPV), a Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC plaintiff, has sued HMD Global (6:23-cv-00759) in the Western District of Texas. The only other active case in this campaign is underway there, before District Judge Alan D. Albright; TP-Link has contested personal jurisdiction, prompting SPV to file a notice of intent to conduct venue-related discovery. SPV targets HMD Global over the provision of Nokia-branded smartphones that support Wi-Fi Direct or Qi wireless charging, asserting five from among over its large portfolio of former Panasonic assets.
November 12, 2023
Dominion Adds Fiserv to Campaign over Former American Express Patents
New Patent Litigation
Liberty Peak Ventures, LLC (LPV) has filed an Eastern District of Texas case against Fiserv (2:23-cv-00518), targeting the provision of a wide array of financial products with nine former American Express patents. The Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC plaintiff’s last active suit, against Visa, ended last month after the parties noticed a settlement. In a separate campaign (as a formal matter), the declaratory judgment action that Zoho filed against LPV in the Western District of Texas recently completed claim construction before District Judge Alan D. Albright.
November 11, 2023
Redwood Technologies Files Pair of Suits Against Qualcomm
New Patent Litigation
Earlier this year, Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC’s Redwood Technologies, LLC filed suit against Acer, NRG Energy (Vivint), and TI over patents acquired from Wi-Fi One, LLC, a subsidiary of Inception Holdings, LLC, in November 2021. The TI and Vivint cases were dismissed without prejudice, with a settlement recently noticed in the Acer suit. Now, in a pair of Western District of Texas complaints, Redwood Technologies has accused Qualcomm (6:23-cv-00696, 6:23-cv-00697) of infringing a combined 16 of those patents.
October 8, 2023
Liberty Peak Brings Four More Patents into Campaign with Complaint Against Visa
New Patent Litigation
Liberty Peak Ventures, LLC (LPV) and recent defendant Fifth Third Bank have filed a joint motion to dismiss with prejudice the Northern District of Texas case between them. The Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC plaintiff has nonetheless kept this campaign active by accusing Visa (1:23-cv-00716) of infringing nine patents, four of them appearing in litigation for the first time, the set of them broadly directed to various aspects of financial technologies, including account reconciliation, payment authorization, transaction authentication, wireless payments, and more. The Western District of Texas complaint targets the provision of a range of financial products that “facilitate, maintain, transact, authenticate, validate, reconcile, and process financial data, financial transactions, mobile payments, contactless payments, and online payments using Visa Cards and related access to Visa’s payment networks, APIs, software development kits, Visa DPS system, Visa DPS services and other product solutions licensed by Defendants to their licensees, issuers, acquirers, partners, and clients”.
June 23, 2023