This past November, District of Colorado Magistrate Judge N. Reid Neureiter ordered William P. Ramey III of Ramey LLP to show cause in writing “why he should not be referred to the Court’s Committee on Conduct for his neglectful behavior in this case, including his failure to appear at a scheduling conference and his failure to serve any discovery”. Ramey’s response was to address five specific pieces of information “relevant to the issues of whether Mr. Ramey and his firm are spread too thin to provide competent representation”. Ramey filed his response—the contents of which have pulled back the curtain on a broad patent monetization operation, including arguably improper legal work, numerous inaccurate certificates of interested parties, and third-party litigation funding lurking in the shadows.

Cisco (6:23-cv-00517), Juniper Networks (6:23-cv-00518), Microsoft (Metaswitch Networks) (6:23-cv-00519), and Oracle (6:23-cv-00520) have been sued in a new campaign targeting the provision of networking products (e.g., gateways, border controllers, and routers) that support certain session management functionalities. Filing the quad of Western District of Texas complaints is a company that calls itself “SLS Manager Technologies LLC”, allegedly formed in Delaware; however, state records do seem to raise a potential issue with that characterization.

MDSP Technologies LLC has launched litigation in the Western District of Texas with separate suits against Alphabet (Google) (6:23-cv-00257), Apple (6:23-cv-00254), Garmin (6:23-cv-00255), Samsung (6:23-cv-00259), and TomTom (6:23-cv-00260). Asserted are two patents generally related to using “Doppler frequency observables” on a mobile device to determine speed, with the complaints targeting various devices (e.g., navigation devices, smartphones, and smartwatches) for the alleged incorporation of “Doppler aided navigation systems”.