After suing Tesla last month, Autonomous IP LLC has filed a second Western District of Texas complaint, this time against Lyft (7:24-cv-00051). The new pleading, filed by William P. Ramey III of Ramey LLP, raises questions in that it states in its body that the “Accused Instrumentality is Tesla Autopilot” but purports, through an attached claim chart, to target provision of the Level 5 initiative, described as a “self-driving system for ridesharing”, a division apparently sold to Toyota subsidiary Woven Planet in October 2021.

Texas plaintiff Autonomous IP LLC has filed its first litigation, suing Tesla (7:24-cv-00025) in the Western District of Texas over the provision of the Tesla Autopilot system. A single patent broadly directed to rerouting the navigation of a “substantially autonomous vehicle” in response to an “interruption signal” or an “emission that corresponds to an emergency vehicle” is now in suit. Autonomous IP is the latest entity to file suit for a monetization team with other plaintiffs stuck in limbo before Delaware Chief Judge Colm F. Connolly.