Longhorn Automotive Group LLC launched its litigation campaign—over a portfolio of former Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV) received from AI-CORE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC—by suing Nissan in the Eastern District of Texas at the end of May 2024. Now, the funded Alpha Alpha Intellectual Partners LLC plaintiff has filed a second suit in the same district, accusing Hyundai (Kia) (2:24-cv-00554) of infringing six patents, four of which overlap with those already in suit. Longhorn Automotive Group targets a range of features—including driver assistance systems, headlight systems, and internal combustion engines—in various Hyundai and Kia-branded automobiles.

With apparent backing from a prominent litigation funder, Longhorn Automotive Group LLC has filed its first lawsuit over patents from the portfolio received from AI-CORE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, accusing Nissan (2:24-cv-00397) in a new Eastern District of Texas complaint of infringing five of them. The Alpha Alpha Intellectual Partners LLC plaintiff targets the provision of a wide array of automobile products, ranging from driver assistance systems to headlights, with those five patents, which AI-CORE received from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV) this past February.

In addition to the announced divestiture of a large tranche of VoIP patents from Avaya to Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC, March 2024 saw several other operating companies—including DXC Technology, Huawei, and SOLiD—unload patent assets. Several NPE enterprises also moved patents around, internally or to other NPEs, seemingly in preparation for new assertion campaigns.