Byteweavr, LLC, an Ascend Innovation Management, LLC plaintiff, has filed its first litigation, suing Cloudera (1:24-cv-00261) in the Western District of Texas and Databricks (2:24-cv-00162) in the Eastern District of Texas over the provision of their various data management and analytics products, including the Cloudera Data Platform and Databricks Lakehouse platform, respectively. The asserted patents, of disparate origins, arrived indirectly in the plaintiff’s possession from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV).

An entity created by two Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV) alums has received more than 880 US patent assets from IV to date, and as reported by RPX last month, subsets of those patents have been on the move since at least June of this year. A review of USPTO assignment records confirms that even more transfers involving IV divestitures took place over the last few weeks, further spreading patents among a network of Texas NPEs.