Attestwave LLC has added a new round of cases to the litigation campaign it began back in October 2022, suing BlackBerry (2:24-cv-00929), Cortado Mobile Solutions (2:24-cv-00928), Honeywell (2:24-cv-00926), Sophos (2:24-cv-00930), and SOTI (2:24-cv-00927). The plaintiff asserts a patent new to the litigation but related to the prior patent-in-suit, the patent broadly directed to “assuring proper execution of a software computer program” through tamper detection and validation. Targeted in the set of Eastern District of Texas complaints is the provision of application and/or device management software, including enterprise mobility management (EMM), mobile device management (MDM), and unified endpoint management (UEM) solutions. At issue is the use of device attestation for “verifying device and app integrity”.

HMD Global (HMD America) (1:23-cv-22751) and Qualcomm (6:23-cv-00511) are the latest defendants to be added to the sole litigation campaign of Attestwave LLC, launched back in October 2022 with separate suits against Alphabet (Google), Appsense (Ivanti), Cisco, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Samsung, VMware, and ZOHO. In all of its complaints, the plaintiff asserts a single patent generally related to a system for “validating proper execution of software modules” from a remote location. HMD is accused of infringement over the provision of the Hexnode Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) app, which supports software module execution and validation tools via the incorporated OEMConfig for Nokia app; and for Qualcomm, over the implementation of Entity Attestation Token (EAT) technologies in the Qualcomm Wireless Edge Services (QWES) platform.

AttestWave LLC sued Alphabet (Google), Appsense (Ivanti), Cisco, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Samsung, VMware, and Zoho last October in separate Western District of Texas complaints, adding a suit against Broadcom in the same district the following month. Only the Samsung and Zoho cases remain active, Samsung having answered, Zoho not yet—and both are now joined by new suits, one against each of GlobalPlatform, (1:23-cv-00904) in the District of Colorado; IBM (4:23-cv-00315), this second one in the Eastern District of Texas; and Nokia (6:23-v-00268), in West Texas. A single patent generally related to a system for “validating proper execution of software modules” via a remote location is asserted throughout.

AttestWave LLC—a plaintiff that appears to be connected to a familiar patent monetization figure—has added a case against Broadcom (6:22-cv-01244) to the litigation campaign that it began with October 2022 suits, filed in the Western District of Texas, separately against Alphabet (Google), Appsense (Ivanti), Cisco, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Samsung, VMware, and Zoho. The new case again asserts a single patent generally related to a system for “validating proper execution of software modules” via a remote location and comes on the heels of late-October dismissals with prejudice in the suits filed against Google and Microsoft.

AttestWave LLC has filed its first litigation, suing Alphabet (Google) (6:22-cv-01102), Appsense (Ivanti) (6:22-cv-01110), Cisco (6:22-cv-01100), IBM (6:22-cv-01107), Intel (6:22-cv-01108), Microsoft (6:22-cv-01114), Samsung (6:22-cv-01116), VMware (6:22-cv-01117), and Zoho (6:22-cv-01113) in separate Western District of Texas complaints. The Delaware plaintiff—which appears to be connected to a familiar patent monetization figure—accuses each defendant of infringing a single patent, generally related to a system for “validating proper execution of software modules” via a remote location, through the provision of various security-related products and features.

This past quarter, US patents continued to spread among NPEs, including to familiar faces in patent monetization, and while some of those recipients have yet to file any litigation, several did launch new campaigns during Q3, targeting players in the Networking market sector, wireless carriers, e-commerce or software companies, and device makers, among others.