Mel NavIP LLC has filed separate Eastern District of Texas complaints against GM (2:23-cv-00175) and Hyundai and Kia (2:23-cv-00176), targeting the provision of automobiles with infotainment systems that include certain speech recognition and navigation features. Six former Mitsubishi Electric (MELCO) patents are asserted in overlapping sets, three generally related to speech processing; three, to vehicle navigation. The new cases come as District Judge Rodney Gilstrap has extended the stay imposed in a case that Mel NavIP filed last May against Toyota, to facilitate the parties’ efforts to finalize a resolution of their dispute.

Delaware plaintiff NexGen Control Systems LLC has filed its first litigation, suing NXP Semiconductors in two separate Eastern District of Texas complaints, one targeting the provision of various automobile computing products, including the Peripheral Sensor Interface 5 (PSI5) system, FXOS8700CQ series devices, and the MC33789 Airbag System Basis Chip and related inertial sensors (5:23-cv-00022); and the other targeting the provision of various devices such as chipsets, controllers, drivers, and integrated circuits (5:23-cv-00025). All six patents now in suit share a development history, at Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (MELCO), multiple assigned portfolios of which have spawned recent litigation.

MEL NavIP LLC, a Texas plaintiff managed by a familiar patent monetization figure, has filed its first litigation, suing Toyota (2:22-cv-00152) over the provision of infotainment systems in certain automobiles. Four patents are asserted in the new Eastern District of Texas complaint, all developed at Mitsubishi Electric. This portfolio is one of many, according to publicly available USPTO assignment records, to leave Mitsubishi Electric for NPE hands over the past several years.