Last month, Touchstream Technologies, Inc. filed its first 2024 complaint, against Yamaha in the Eastern District of Texas; now, the plaintiff has hit VIZIO (8:24-cv-02328). Two patents (one familiar to the campaign, one new) generally related to triggering the remote playback of content are asserted, with infringement allegations focused on the provision of VIZIO’s WatchFree+ app “and associated SmartCast compatible devices, such as TVs, speakers, and sound bars”. Elsewhere in this campaign, Western District of Texas Judge Alan D. Albright, while having denied other posttrial motions in a Touchstream case against Alphabet (Google), which produced a $340M jury verdict (and judgment) for the plaintiff, has yet to resolve a posttrial dispute over whether that award should be considered a one-time lump sum (Google’s position) or merely a royalty for an articulated period of past infringement (Touchstream’s). The court indicated in mid-January 2024 that it would “get an order out . . . pretty quickly”.

Touchstream Technologies, Inc. (d/b/a Shodogg) has filed its first complaint in 2024 with a suit against Yamaha (2:24-cv-00739) in the Eastern District of Texas. The three asserted patents, each of which are asserted in litigation for the first time, are broadly directed to triggering the remote playback of content. Yamaha is accused of infringement through the provision of products incorporating its MusicCast streaming and multi-room audio system, along with the MusicCast Controller application. At issue is MusicCast functionality that allegedly “provides playback of content including from Internet-based streaming music services on individual devices as well as multi-room configurations”.

Last week, a Western District of Texas jury reportedly returned a verdict in favor of Touchstream Technologies, Inc. (d/b/a Shodogg) and against Alphabet (Google), awarding the plaintiff roughly $340M. Touchstream alleged infringement of three patents through the provision of Google’s Chromecast products and services—three patents under concurrent inter partes review (IPR) by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Elsewhere in this campaign, Shodogg’s Eastern District of Texas cases against Altice, Charter Communications, and Comcast are focused on Altice’s motion to transfer, for convenience, to the Eastern District of New York, Charter’s motion contesting venue in East Texas, and Comcast’s motion for a convenience transfer to the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

As Touchstream Technologies, Inc. (d/b/a Shodogg) and Alphabet (Google) prepare for a trial this month before Western District of Texas Judge Alan D. Albright, the plaintiff has filed three new cases, this time in the Eastern District of Texas. The defendants are Altice (2:23-cv-00060), Charter Communications (2:23-cv-00059), and Comcast (2:23-cv-00062). A single patent—one of the three in suit against Google—is trained on the provision of cable TV set-top boxes in operation with corresponding mobile apps. Per Shodogg, its patents arose from their named inventor’s mid-2010 perception of “the need to be able to take videos that could be viewed on a smaller device, like a smartphone, and ‘move’ them to a larger screen, like a computer monitor or television”.

Touchstream Technologies, Inc. (d/b/a Shodogg), a New York plaintiff, has filed what appears to be its first lawsuit, accusing Alphabet (Google) (6:21-cv-00569) of infringing three patents in a new Western District of Texas complaint. Per the plaintiff, the patents arose from their named inventor’s mid-2010 perception of “the need to be able to take videos that could be viewed on a smaller device, like a smartphone, and ‘move’ them to a larger screen, like a computer monitor or television”. Infringement allegations target Google’s Chromecast products and services.