In mid-August, a suit filed in February 2022 against Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile) was dismissed with prejudice, after an earlier notice of settlement was filed with the District of Delaware. The plaintiff there is Vector Licensing LLC, an entity apparently associated with Texas monetization firm IP Edge LLC, and the patent there is one of 18 divested from Ajou University in February 2021. Now, Solstice Wireless LLC, another IP Edge plaintiff, has asserted more patents from the same source, this time three of them, in an Eastern District of Texas complaint, also against T-Mobile (4:22-cv-00723).

As IP Edge LLC continues its usual month-end onslaught of new filings—including a handful involving a former Panasonic patent, and nine more over former ZTE patents—USPTO records suggest that the monetization firm has several patent portfolios lined up for future assertion. Meanwhile, other IP Edge moves indicate that the firm’s monetization strategies may continue to evolve beyond short-lived cases filed and dismissed in bulk.

Texas monetization firm IP Edge LLC has been the most prolific NPE plaintiff over the last several years, filing hundreds of cases through various LLCs over the alleged infringement of patents from a wide variety of sources. The LLC plaintiffs have typically conducted their campaigns in file-and-dismiss fashion, lately at around a 50 case-per-month clip across the IP Edge board, but certain entities associated with the firm have departed from that approach since 2020—and two LLCs created in Texas in June of this year suggest that such departures may continue.