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A Last 2023 Look at Notable Patent Assignments
Patent Market, Patent Watch
Patent transfers recently made public by the USPTO include multiple assignments between NPEs, several of which have litigated previously received assets, but others of which are new and have yet to file suit. They also include a grant to the US Treasury Department of four assets, one of which was “litigated” through this past July, when Western District of Texas Judge Alan D. Albright, on the court’s own motion, brought the campaign to an end.
December 17, 2023
Week Two for Gamehancement Looks a Lot Like Week One
New Patent Litigation
Gamehancement LLC’s new litigation over former Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV) patents received from Mind Fusion LLC has expanded rapidly in its second week, hitting Advent International (IDEMIA Identity & Security France) (2:23-cv-00597), Connection Technology Systems (2:23-cv-00592), HTC (2:23-cv-00593), Marvel Technology (4:23-cv-04690), NXP Semiconductors (6:23-cv-00846), Oura Health (2:23-cv-00598), Preventice Solutions (4:23-cv-04691), Qualcomm (6:23-cv-00851), Renesas Electronics (2:23-cv-00599), SATO (2:23-cv-00600), Tobii Technology (2:23-cv-00601), TP-Link (2:23-cv-00603), Zebra Technologies (6:23-cv-00852), and Zoho (6:23-cv-00854). These new campaigns echo those of Patent Armory Inc.—in more ways than one.
December 17, 2023
From IV to Mind Fusion to Gamehancement—to Federal Courthouses in Texas
New Patent Litigation
The first litigation of Gamehancement LLC over former Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV) patents transferred to it by Mind Fusion LLC earlier this year has been a barrage. The defendants—Accton Technology (Edgecore Networks) (2:23-cv-00569), Akamai Technologies (6:23-cv-00829), Analog Devices (2:23-cv-00566), Broadcom (6:23-cv-00839), Canva (6:23-cv-00840), Dropbox (6:23-cv-00830), Fortinet (2:23-cv-00570), Garmin (6:23-cv-00841), Infineon (6:23-cv-00843), INKA Entworks (2:23-cv-00572), Kenko Tokina (2:23-cv-00574), Kudelski (2:23-cv-00575), MediaTek (6:23-cv-00844), Ricoh (6:23-cv-00838), Siemens (6:23-cv-00831), and Sophos (2:23-cv-00580)—have each been sued in either the Eastern or Western District of Texas over a wide array of products, ranging from camera lenses to networking solutions.
December 10, 2023