This past November, District of Colorado Magistrate Judge N. Reid Neureiter ordered William P. Ramey III of Ramey LLP to show cause in writing “why he should not be referred to the Court’s Committee on Conduct for his neglectful behavior in this case, including his failure to appear at a scheduling conference and his failure to serve any discovery”. Ramey’s response was to address five specific pieces of information “relevant to the issues of whether Mr. Ramey and his firm are spread too thin to provide competent representation”. Ramey filed his response—the contents of which have pulled back the curtain on a broad patent monetization operation, including arguably improper legal work, numerous inaccurate certificates of interested parties, and third-party litigation funding lurking in the shadows.

SafeCast Limited has added a case against Microsoft (6:22-cv-00983) to the litigation campaign that it began this summer with separate Western District of Texas suits filed against Alphabet (Google), AT&T, DISH Network, HBO, NBCUniversal, Paramount Global (f/k/a ViacomCBS), and Verizon. Targeted with the single patent-in-campaign is the provision of the Xandr advertisement platform. SafeCast pleads willful infringement, noting that when “Microsoft purchased Xandr from AT&T” in June 2022, it picked up one of Xandr’s “core patents”, which allegedly cites the patent-in-campaign as prior art.

A single patent generally related to “automating compliance with local broadcasting regulations” has been asserted in a new campaign initiated by SafeCast Limited against Alphabet (Google) (6:22-cv-00678), AT&T (6:22-cv-00676), DISH Network (6:22-cv-00677), HBO (6:22-cv-00679), NBC Universal (6:22-cv-00680), Paramount Global (f/k/a ViacomCBS) (6:22-cv-00682), and Verizon (6:22-cv-00683). The plaintiff targets the provision of “addressable TV platform[s] that deliver[] household-specific TV advertising based on advertiser-defined target audience in a privacy-[compliant] manner”.