Southern District of New York Magistrate Judge Valerie Figueredo has granted an Alphabet (Google) motion for attorney fees against EscapeX IP LLC, the third such grant in that single campaign. Meanwhile, Aero Global, a defendant in the litigation campaign of AML IP LLC, also sued in the Southern District of New York, has quickly brought that order to the attention of District Judge Dale E. Ho, in connection with a separate motion to shift fees there. The two plaintiffs both operate under the monetization approach of Texas monetization firm Dynamic IP Deals, LLC (d/b/a DynaIP), which manages the litigation campaigns of Pueblo Nuevo LLC, a Texas entity solely owned by a Panamanian citizen, through representation by Ramey LLP.

Texas NPE escapex IP LLC has initiated its first litigation, suing Alphabet (Google) (6:22-cv-00428), Apple (6:22-cv-00427), Digital Trends (1:22-cv-03512), Liberty Media (Sirius XM) (6:22-cv-00430), Rockbot (2:22-cv-00130), and Spotify (3:22-cv-00963) across multiple judicial districts. A single patent broadly directed to updating a “dynamic” music album is asserted across the complaints, which target playlist management features in the defendants’ respective music streaming platforms. escapeX IP’s case against Spotify provides yet another example of a plaintiff choosing to file in the Northern District of Texas while apparently ignoring that district’s heightened disclosure requirements, while its suit against “Sirius XM” raises separate questions about what defendant has actually been named there.