This past January, Pay As You Go, LLC (PAYG), a plaintiff associated with monetization figure Leigh M. Rothschild, voluntarily dismissed its October 2023 case against Verizon, doing so without prejudice. Now, PAYG has sued Verizon (2:24-cv-00400) again, this time asserting a later family member of the patent previously in suit, both described as generally related to “telecommunications services and methods that enable a user and/or other responsible party to make payments as the user uses the telecommunication services”. The plaintiff again targets the provision of wireless telecommunication services that support features for allowing users to purchase such services in “blocks of data that can be used in a single month on the customer-user’s device”.

The last of its three cases against AT&T, Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile),and Verizon having ended, Pay As You Go, LLC, a plaintiff associated with monetization figure Leigh M. Rothschild, has sued Cloudera (1:24-cv-00463), this time in the Western (rather than the Eastern) District of Texas. The plaintiff describes the sole patent-in-campaign here as generally related to “telecommunications services and methods that enable a user and/or other responsible party to make payments as the user uses the telecommunication services”, with its most recent infringement allegations focused on the provision of functionality within the “Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) cloud-native services” by which a “customer-user can choose to pay for additional blocks of data using a third-party payment service”.

Pay As You Go, LLC, a plaintiff associated with monetization figure Leigh M. Rothschild, has sued Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile) (2:23-cv-00501) in the Eastern District of Texas roughly three weeks after hitting AT&T and Verizon in the same district. Pay As You Go targets T-Mobile over the provision of the feature within its wireless telecommunication services allowing users to purchase such services “in blocks of data that can be used in a single month on the customer-user’s device”.

Pay As You Go, LLC has added suits against AT&T (2:23-cv-00462) and Verizon (2:23-cv-00463) to the sole litigation campaign it launched in April 2023 with a suit against Mint Mobile. The plaintiff describes the asserted patent as generally related to “telecommunications services and methods that enable a user and/or other responsible party to make payments as the user uses the telecommunication services”, with the defendants accused of infringement through the provision of wireless telecommunication services that support features for allowing users to purchase such services in “blocks of data that can be used in a single month on the customer-user’s device”.

While the activity of former top filer IP Edge LLC has ground to a halt in light of the “Series of Extraordinary Events” before Delaware Chief Judge Colm F. Connolly, other frequent plaintiffs have continued business as usual. Entities associated with Leigh M. Rothschild continue to add cases to earlier campaigns, with new litigation ginning up in 2023 as to two plaintiffs, Pay As You Go, LLC affirmatively and Touchpoint Projection Innovations LLC by declaratory judgment (DJ) complaint. Pay As You Go just sued UVNV (d/b/a Ultra Mobile) (Mint Mobile) (1:23-cv-00473) in Delaware over prepaid telecommunications services, while target Leaseweb (3:23-cv-00143) has responded to a letter floating a $2.5M figure for a “fully paid-up, non-exclusive license” from Touchpoint by preemptively filing a complaint in the Eastern District of Virginia.