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.

Songbird Tech LLC has added separate Western District of Texas suits against ASUSTek (6:24-cv-00041) and LG Electronics (LGE) (6:24-cv-00042) to the campaign that it began there with a July 2023 case against Samsung. The inventor-controlled Texas plaintiff targets the support for various voice assistant platforms—including Amazon’s Alexa, Google Assistant, and/or Microsoft’s Cortana—within a wide array of devices (e.g., appliances, computers, TVs). Samsung’s deadline to respond to that earlier complaint has been pushed out to early April.

Inventor-controlled Songbird Tech LLC has sued Samsung (6:23-cv-00537) over the support for various voice assistant platforms—including Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Microsoft Cortana, and Samsung’s Bixby—within a wide array of devices (e.g., appliances laptops, smartphones, smart watches, tablets, and TVs). A single patent generally related to using audio messages for communications between a user and a “host agent of a customer service center” has been asserted in the new Western District of Texas complaint.