In early April, RPX noted the January 2023 transfer of a ten-patent portfolio from Constellation Software subsidiary N. Harris Computer to Video Solutions Pte. Ltd., suggesting that litigation over the received assets looked imminent. Now, Video Solutions, an entity formed in Singapore in June 2022 “for the protection and licensing of these inventions and intellectual property”, has indeed filed suit, accusing Cisco (2:23-cv-00222) of infringing two of the received assets. Targeted in the new Eastern District of Texas complaint are “Cisco’s virtual collaboration products such as Webex, Jabber, Unified Communications Manager, and TelePresence Systems, and any other Cisco products, either alone or in combination, that operate in a reasonably similar manner”.

Assignment data recently made public by the USPTO reflect movement of certain operating company patents to NPEs associated with third-party funding, as well as to a publicly traded patent assertion entity. Multiple transfers following the dismissal of NPE litigation have also surfaced, adding to a list of transactions involving operating company patent assets made public in Q1.