After a bit of a false start in November 2022 against Qorvo, Microelectronic Innovations LLC has filed a second complaint over a portfolio of former STMicro patents that it received in May of last year from France Brevets SAS. The new defendant is Analog Devices (1:23-cv-00779), accused in the Western District of Texas of infringing four patents through the provision of its “Broadband Up/Downconverting Mixer with Integrated FractionalN PLL and VCO” power amplification devices; “Microwave Wideband Synthesizers with Integrated VCO products”; and “16-Bit, 25Msps/10Msps ADC products”.

According to recently released USPTO data, in early May, France Brevets SAS assigned over 90 US patents to a new Delaware NPE. The transacted portfolio was developed by STMicro, which late last year assigned dozens of patents to Bell Semiconductor, LLC (Bell Semic), a Hilco Inc. (d/b/a Hilco Global) NPE currently litigating patents received from Broadcom.