General Video, LLC has filed separate complaints against Acer (5:24-cv-00125), ASUSTek (5:24-cv-00126), Dell (5:24-cv-00124), HP (5:24-cv-00123), and Lenovo (5:24-cv-00122) in the Eastern District of Texas. Asserted against each defendant are six data transmission patents described as “generally directed to the high-speed, efficient, and secure transmission of audio and video data between transmitting and receiving devices”, and targeted is the provision of a wide array of products—organized under “four general categories” in the complaints: laptop computers, desktop computers, computer monitors, and video/graphics cards—that are compliant with various DisplayPort standards.

Recorded US patent assignments recently made public include several transfers of former operating company patents worth watching, including a transfer of more than 20 US assets into the hands of a newly-formed Delaware entity tied by an experienced monetization team that has run several litigation campaigns with the backing of third-party litigation funding; a transfer from the same source to another Delaware entity of uncertain management but possible connection to a prolific foreign monetization operation; and a transfer between two active NPEs of a couple of wireless communications patents received by one of them from an operating company back in April 2021. Those USPTO records also contain the divestiture of more than two dozen memory patents from an operating company and its acquired subsidiary to a recipient with suggestive ties.