Last year, the relationship between frequent plaintiff-side counsel Ramey LLP and monetization operation “AiPi” imploded, affecting a long list of litigation campaigns and producing ramifications that continue to ripple outward even now, over a year later. However, eclipsed by the wider events of late 2023 was an “Advisory to the Court”, filed to inform Western District of Texas Judge Jason K. Pulliam of an alleged white-box “cover-up”. Apparently, defendant’s counsel made that discovery after running a quick search for the term “skin” on a claim chart that a Ramey LLP-repped plaintiff attached to its complaint.

CLOUD SYSTEMS HOLDCO IP LLC (CSHIP) has filed suit against Savant Systems (1:24-cv-08502) in the Southern District of New York. The patent-in-suit generally relates to controlling an “environment” through a server and a control client, just one from five asserted across the roughly 20 complaints that have been filed in this campaign since its October 2022 start. The accused products are certain media/music servers (“the PAV-SIPA devices (SIPA1SM, SIPA50SM, SIPA125SM)”) together with apps used to control them. The new complaint drops a couple of weeks after the USPTO canceled, via ex parte reexam (EPR), all 20 claims of one of the asserted patent’s family members.

In its newest complaint, filed by Ramey LLP in the Western District of Texas, CLOUD SYSTEMS HOLDCO IP LLC (CSHIP) states, “The Accused Instrumentality is Google Smart Home”. That assertion appears to contradict the identity of the defendant, Comcast (7:24-cv-00072), as well as the claim chart attached to the complaint, which instead identifies a variety of Comcast’s own smart home security products sold under its Xfinity brand, including the Xfinity Home app, its “The Panel” control device, as used to control a home security system, including security cameras, sensors, video doorbells, and door locks. In an earlier, separate action, Google has asked the court to dismiss the case with prejudice because CSHIP missed its deadline to respond to a motion to dismiss.

CLOUD SYSTEMS HOLDCO IP LLC (CSHIP) has filed a second suit against each of Carrier Global (8:23-cv-02269) and Philips (Philips North America) (7:23-cv-00186), this time targeting the UltraSync mobile app and Philips Avent baby monitor, respectively. At issue are features such as remote control and remote monitoring. The two asserted patents, asserted in overlapping sets, generally relate to controlling an “environment” through a server and a control client. Since launching its sole litigation campaign in October 2022, the plaintiff has sued 12 defendants including Alphabet (Google), Amazon (Ring), Bosch (Bosch Security Systems), NRG Energy (Vivint), and Samsung.

The cases that CLOUD SYSTEMS HOLDCO IP LLC (CSHIP) filed against Amazon (Ring), in the Central District of California, and against Alphabet (Google), in the Western District of Texas, have been stayed to await the outcome of an ex parte reexamination (EPR) of the sole patent there asserted. CSHIP has hit Google a second time, now with two other patents from the same family, one of which is making its debut in this campaign, begun last October; again targeted is the control of connected devices via mobile app within the Google Home platform.

CLOUD SYSTEMS HOLDCO IP LLC (CSHIP) has followed up its March 2023 case against Amazon (Ring), filed in the Central District of California, with a round of early June suits, hitting Alphabet (Google) (1:23-cv-00625) and Armstrong Group (Guardian Protection Services) (6:23-cv-00416) in the Western District of Texas; The Philadelphia Contributionship (Vector Security) (2:23-cv-00264) in the Eastern District of Texas; and Bosch (Bosch Security Systems) (0:23-cv-61040) in the Southern District of Florida. Three patents generally related to monitoring and controlling multiple devices are in suit in this campaign, but just one of them has been asserted in these more recent complaints.

CLOUD SYSTEMS HOLDCO IP LLC (CSHIP) has filed its first suit outside of the Western District of Texas, hitting Amazon (Ring) (2:23-cv-02247) with a new Central District of California complaint. In suit is a single patent from the asserted family, generally related to controlling and monitoring multiple devices, with infringement allegations targeting the provision of smart home security products that can be controlled, alongside connected smart devices, by a mobile app. Litigation remains active against two of the five prior defendants, ADT and Samsung, both of which have answered. Meanwhile, CSHIP—a plaintiff associated with one of the monetization firms, Dynamic IP Deals, LLC (d/b/a DynaIP), caught up in the “Series of Extraordinary Events” unfolding (albeit more slowly these days) in Delaware—has filed yet another eyebrow-raising certificate of interested parties in its latest case.

CLOUD SYSTEMS HOLDCO IP LLC (CSHIP), a plaintiff associated with Texas monetization firm Dynamic IP Deals, LLC (d/b/a DynaIP), launched a home security campaign with early October cases filed separately against ADT, Monitronics (d/b/a Brinks Home and LiveWatch Security), and Philips in the Western District of Texas. Several days later, CSHIP expanded its new campaign in that same venue, suing Samsung (6:22-cv-01069) and Vivint Smart Home (Vivint) (6:22-cv-01070). Under the new judge assignment system imposed for Waco patent litigation, these five cases have landed, at least initially, in three different courtrooms: those of District Judges Fred Biery (ADT and Samsung), Orlando L. Garcia (Vivint), and Jason K. Pulliam (Brinks and Philips).

Formed this past June in Texas, CLOUD SYSTEMS HOLDCO IP LLC has filed its first litigation, suing ADT (6:22-cv-01063), Monitronics (d/b/a Brinks Home and LiveWatch Security) (6:22-cv-01067), and Philips (6:22-cv-01068) over the provision of smart home security systems that can be controlled, alongside connected smart devices, by a mobile app. Three patents are asserted in overlapping sets across the Western District of Texas complaints, their general subject matter controlling and monitoring multiple devices.

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.