Plaintiffs associated with Dublin-based monetization firm Atlantic IP Services Limited continue to file new cases, week after week. Eireog Innovations Limited hit Dell (1:26-cv-00416) in the Western District of Texas over four former NXP patents last week, while Croga Innovations Limited sued Amazon (Amazon Web Services) (1:24-cv-00398) in the same district over a single former L3Harris patent. The Dell complaint focuses on the provision of a wide variety of products, including laptops, desktops, and servers, allegedly “using Intel-based CPUs (Haswell-based architecture and newer)”; the Amazon complaint, of the AWS VPC (Virtual Private cloud), AWS EC2, and AWS Network Firewall products.

Separate assignments of patent assets from five entities operating under the umbrella of Dublin-based patent monetization firm Atlantic IP Services Limited to a sixth such entity were recently recorded and made public by the USPTO. The transfers leave each of those divestors without any US patent holdings, at least according to currently available assignment records. Two Atlantic IP plaintiffs have notified the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the change in real party-in-interest in proceedings before it.

Croga Innovations Limited, an Atlantic IP Services Limited plaintiff, has added separate cases against Fortinet (2:24-cv-00206) and Palo Alto Networks (2:24-cv-00208) to the litigation campaign that it began in late December 2023 against IBM and expanded this past February against Cisco. A single patent is asserted in each complaint, both received by Croga from L3Harris, with infringement allegations targeting certain FortiSandbox products “when used in conjunction with any FortiGate or FortiProxy device, as well as FortiSandbox SaaS, FortiSandbox PaaS, FortiSandbox Public Cloud used either in conjunction with FortiGate or FortiProxy device or independently” and the Palo Alto Networks Remote Browser Isolation service, respectively.

Recently recorded patent assignments made public by the USPTO contain noteworthy transfers to multiple plaintiffs now in litigation, including a new source of patents for Apex Beam Technologies LLC, a new source of patents for Pantech Corporation, and a familiar source of patent rights for Crystal Leap Zrt, this time assigning patents directly, though. Movement can also be seen from troubled patent monetization firm IP Edge LLC, as well as movement from various sources to patent broker Allied Security Trust. Take a look.

Atlantic IP’s Croga Innovations Limited has filed suit against Cisco (2:24-cv-00065) in the Eastern District of Texas. Two of the three asserted patents are generally related to isolating a computer environment with a firewall when network communications involve an “untrusted” destination. They share the same source as the two patents already in suit, in a previous case against IBM. Developed elsewhere, the third patent broadly concerns a VoIP system with a “call control gatekeeper”. Cisco is targeted over the provision of the Umbrella remote browser isolation (RBI) tool and the Cisco Unified Broder Element (CUBE) version 14.

Croga Innovations Limited, a plaintiff tied to Irish monetization firm Atlantic IP Services, has sued IBM (2:23-cv-00634) in the Eastern District of Texas. Asserted are two distributed networking patents developed by L3 Technologies (now L3Harris), with infringement allegations in the new complaint focused on “IBM Wazi Developer versions 1.4, 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6 with IBM Z and IBM LinuxOne platforms IBM Cloud, IBM Cloud Virtual Servers, and IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers” for both.