Northern District of Texas Judges Ada Brown and Jane J. Boyle have recently denied motions to proceed without representation by local counsel, as local rules require, in cases filed last month by WirelessWERX IP LLC against Honda, Mitsubishi, and Nissan. After such a denial, the plaintiff has 14 days to get local counsel or face possible dismissal. Meanwhile, current counsel Ramey LLP has filed six additional cases in this campaign, one against each of Ford (2:25-cv-00241) and Subaru (2:25-cv-00225), in the Eastern District of Texas; Tesla (7:25-cv-00093) and Zebra Technologies (7:25-cv-00094), in the Western District of Texas; Blues (1:25-cv-10469) and HERE Technologies (1:25-cv-10418) in the District of Massachusetts; and OnStar (5:25-cv-00104), in the Eastern District of North Carolina.

WirelessWERX IP LLC has been suing over a location tracking portfolio—so far over six of the patents from that portfolio—since October 2022. It recently added separate cases against AT&T (d/b/a FirstNet) (2:25-cv-00182) in the Eastern District of Texas; against Honda (3:25-cv-00342), Hyundai (3:25-cv-00341), Mitsubishi Motors (3:25-cv-00340), and Nissan (3:25-cv-00382) in the Northern District of Texas; against Samsara (1:25-cv-00245) in the Northern District of Georgia; against VOXX (8:25-cv-00386) in the Middle District of Florida; and against PointR (1:25-cv-10391) in the District of Massachusetts, all to the one filed against Samsung earlier in January. Several of the districts in which WirelessWERX IP has filed cases requires litigants to file a certified list of interested parties. WirelessWERX IP has purported to do so there (and elsewhere), each time represented by Ramey LLP and each time providing a certified list that appears to be, at best, incomplete.

Samsung (7:25-cv-00007) is the latest defendant to be added to the sole litigation campaign of WirelessWERX IP LLC, a plaintiff associated with Dynamic IP Deals, LLC (d/b/a DynaIP) and Pueblo Nuevo LLC. In the new Western District of Texas complaint, the plaintiff asserts a single patent generally related to “selectively communicating” with a device within “pre-defined geographical zones”. Samsung is accused of infringement through the provision of the SmartThings Find platform, with features for allowing users to receive notifications when a device arrives at or leaves certain locations (i.e., Zones) at issue.

It looks as if April 2024 will end with three additional defendants having been sued in the sole litigation campaign of WirelessWERX IP LLC, a DynaIP and Pueblo Nuevo LLC plaintiff. Those defendants are Trimble (1:24-cv-01035), MapleBear (d/b/a Instacart) (6:24-cv-00208), and AT&T (2:24-cv-00282), accused, in April complaints filed in that order in three separate district courts, of infringing patents from a family generally related to communicating with a device inside a “pre-defined geographical zones”. AT&T’s and Trimble’s accused products are their TruckMate and Fleet Management platforms, respectively, while Instacart is targeted over the provision of its “products and technology platform for connecting consumers with restaurants and other merchants”, including the Instacart website.

DoorDash (6:23-cv-00863), GrubHub (6:23-cv-00865), HEB (Neighborfavor) (6:23-cv-00866), Life360 (3:23-cv-06725), and OnFleet (3:23-cv-06724) are the latest defendants to be added to the litigation campaign that WirelessWERX IP LLC initiated with separate October 2022 suits filed against Alphabet (Google), Apple, Lyft, Raytheon, and Uber. The sole asserted patent generally relates to selectively communicating with a first device within pre-defined geographical zones, with the defendants accused of infringement through the provision of delivery (DoorDash, GrubHub, Neighborfavor, and OnFleet) or family safety (Life360) software products that support certain location tracking and mapping features.

WirelessWERX IP LLC, yet another NPE operating in connection with patent advisory and monetization firm Dynamic IP Deals, LLC (d/b/a DynaIP), has launched a campaign, hitting Alphabet (Google) (6:22-cv-01056), Apple (6:22-cv-01050), Lyft (6:22-cv-01058), Raytheon (6:22-cv-01059), and Uber (6:22-cv-01060) over the provision of various products with location-tracking and mapping features. Four patents are asserted in overlapping the sets; they were received as part of a 16-asset portfolio this past June.

Last week, RPX pointed its readers toward a string of new cases filed by various NPEs under the Dynamic IP Deals, LLC (d/b/a DynaIP) umbrella as well as public data suggesting that the start of multiple additional campaigns was likely imminent. Since then, one of those campaigns has begun; a new patent assignment to DynaIP has appeared; and the firm has created yet another Texas NPE.

Increasingly prolific monetization firm Dynamic IP Deals, LLC (d/b/a DynaIP) has been busy this month, so far opening up three campaigns—SmartWatch Mobileconcepts LLC focused on smartwatches, HALEY IP LLC on in-vehicle cameras, and WFR IP LLC on wireless earpieces and wearable piece products—and also filing several new cases via controlled plaintiff MISSED CALL LLC. The firm has filed dozens of new cases since the start of this year, and, having formed more than a handful of NPEs in Texas during the first half of 2022, DynaIP shows no signs of slowing down.