Its first case against Alphabet (Google) still stayed to await the outcome of multiple inter partes review (IPR) proceedings, Virginia plaintiff Security First Innovations, LLC (SFI) has now sued IBM (1:25-cv-00514) in the Eastern District of Virginia. The three patents-in-suit, each newly asserted in litigation, are described in the complaint as generally “relate[d] to systems for securing Data-At-Rest from unauthorized access or use”. IBM is accused of infringement through the provision of its Cloud Object Storage system and related products, with features related to data parsing and encryption at issue.

Virginia plaintiff Security First Innovations LLC has accused Alphabet (Google) (1:23-cv-00329) of infringing four data security patents through the provision of data storage protections within Google Cloud. Development work leading to the portfolio from which the asserted patents are drawn was conducted at a company that purportedly offered a suite of “data security solutions” before entering bankruptcy in 2020; the former chairman of that company created the plaintiff in Virginia this past July.