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Volteon Cleans Up Prior Filing and Sues Two More
New Patent Litigation
Shortly after filing separate suits against Kyocera, Nothing Technology, Sony, and ZEPP Health in the Eastern District of Texas, Volteon LLC also sued LG Electronics (LGE) (7:25-cv-00051) and Sonim Technologies (7:25-cv-00052) in the Western District of Texas. Volteon targets the provision of certain smartphones, including the LG G8 ThinQ and Sonim XP10. At issue are features for detecting and marking faces within photos and rotating the user interface between portrait and landscape mode using accelerometer data.
February 13, 2025
Volteon Zaps Four More Defendants in East Texas
New Patent Litigation
Volteon LLC has filed separate Eastern District of Texas complaints against Kyocera (2:25-cv-00092), Nothing Technology (2:25-cv-00093), Sony (2:25-cv-00094), and ZEPP Health (2:25-cv-00095). Asserted are two of the six patents-in-suit in Volteon’s March 2023 round of cases, one of the two patents generally related to a rechargeable handheld device that can capture, display, and process images; the other, to a device that can display data from an incorporated accelerometer. This campaign has targeted the provision of smartphones and/or smartwatches, with the charts attached to the Sony complaint here seeming to accuse products that it does not provide.
February 1, 2025
Smartphone Campaign Launches in the Eastern District of Texas
New Patent Litigation
A sixth 2023 campaign associated with the same patent monetization figure has been launched, Delaware plaintiff Volteon LLC suing OnePlus (2:23-cv-00132), TCL (2:23-cv-00138), Xiaomi (2:23-cv-00134), and ZTE (2:23-cv-00137) over the provision of smartphones. The new Eastern District of Texas complaints target the incorporation of accelerometers, cameras, displays, image processors, and/or rechargeable batteries with overlapping sets of six patents, each of which names Yehuda Binder, CEO of May Patents, as its sole inventor.
April 2, 2023