Over the past several years, Ramey LLP has filed more than 300 patent cases for plaintiffs tied to Texas monetization firm Dynamic IP Deals, LLC (d/b/a DynaIP). As thoroughly covered above, Ramey LLP’s representation has caused a long list of federal judges to grant motions shifting fees or otherwise impose sanctions, including Magistrate Judge Peter H. Kang in the Northern District of California. That district imposes heightened disclosure requirements on litigants, in response to which Susan S.Q. Kalra, a now-sanctioned attorney with Ramey LLP, signed a “Certification of Interested Entities or Persons” that appears at best to be incomplete, given the formation records for the plaintiff, KOJI IP LLC—and potentially also in light of sworn statements that Carlos O. Gorrichategui, DynaIP’s president, has made in declarations submitted to other federal courts.

Northern District of California Magistrate Judge Peter H. Kang has sanctioned three Ramey LLP attorneys as individuals: William P. Ramey III ($45,264) as well as Susan S.Q. Kalra ($8,364) and Jeffrey E. Kubiak ($10,496). Monetary penalties are in the amounts indicated, calculated against pro hac vice application fees avoided as part of a cost-cutting scheme that led Ramey and Kubiak, per the court, to engage in the unauthorized practice of law in California and Kalra to aid and abet that unauthorized practice. Among the court’s other sanctions, the three attorneys are required to distribute copies of the order outlining their behavior: (1) to the Standing Committees of Professional Conduct for the Central and Northern Districts of California; (2) to any judge presiding over a case currently pending in the Northern District of California in which one of their names appears on any filings (as pro hac vice pending or otherwise); and (3) “as an attachment to any motion for pro hac vice admission filed by or on behalf of any of these lawyers in any action filed in a California federal court during the next five years” (court’s emphasis). Meanwhile, last week, Southern District of Florida Judge Robert N. Scola, Jr. shifted attorney fees against another Ramey LLP-repped plaintiff, Ramey, and local counsel, awarding $33,986.43 under 35 U.S.C. § 285 and $50,619.59 under 28 U.S.C. § 1927, adopting a magistrate judge’s report that admonishes Ramey for the unauthorized practice of law there as well.

KOJI IP LLC has filed its first litigation, suing Alphabet (Google) (6:23-cv-00138) over the support of the Nearby Notifications service—which provides users with “location-specific notifications for apps and websites, with no prior app install required”—in its Android operating system. The sole asserted patent generally relates to enabling or disabling the display of an app icon on a portable device’s “home screen” based on whether it is able to “discover” an “appliance which is present within a range of a close-range wireless network”. KOJI IP joins the ranks of litigating Pueblo Nuevo LLC-managed plaintiffs to file a certificate of parties “financially interested in the outcome of the case” that fails to include Pueblo Nuevo or Pueblo Nuevo’s sole owner.