As the calendar turned, several notable patent assignments appeared in publicly available USPTO assignment records, including a batch of semiconductor patents and a batch of networking assets separately moved to two well-established monetization firms and transfers from two individual inventors to entities—one formed in Texas; the other, in Delaware—that appear poised for assertion.

Three Adeia Inc. subsidiaries—Adeia Guides Incorporated; Adeia Media Holdings LLC; and Adeia Technologies Incorporated—have together sued Disney (BAMTech, ESPN, Hulu) (1:24-cv-01231) over the provision of its various streaming services (i.e., Disney+, ESPN+, Hulu, and Hulu Live) and related server products. At issue are features such as “chunking”, content delivery networks (CDNs), viewing progress tracking, and more, with six patents asserted in the District of Delaware complaint.

X Corp. (f/k/a Twitter) (3:23-cv-06151) has filed a Northern District of California complaint against Adeia Inc.  and subsidiaries Adeia Guides Incorporated and Adeia Media LLC, seeking declaratory judgments of noninfringement for four patents related to social media, content display and recommendation, and advertising. This past August, Adeia Media filed a complaint in California state court alleging that after Twitter’s recent change in ownership, the company stopped making required quarterly payments stemming from an April 2019 license agreement between Twitter and the Adeia entities’ predecessors, which included an annual license fee of $3M (according to that state court complaint), “unless Adeia Media agrees to a material reduction of the amount required to be paid under the License Agreement”.