This past March, Encryptawave Technologies LLC launched its first litigation by suing D-Link, Hon Hai Precision Industry (Sharp), and TCL in separate Eastern District of Texas cases. Now, the plaintiff has expanded that campaign with three more complaints in the same district, one against each of HMD Global (4:24-cv-00569), Honeywell (4:24-cv-00570), and Konica Minolta (4:24-cv-00588), and another complaint, filed in the District of Colorado, against Hitron Technologies (1:24-cv-01764). The plaintiff targets the support for the WPA2 security protocol within authentication tools in a wide array of devices (e.g., computers, label printers, smartphones, smart microwave ovens, tablets, thermostats, TVs, etc.).

Encryptawave Technologies LLC has filed its first cases over the patents that it received from IP Edge LLC-tied former plaintiff Moxchange LLC, which litigated a campaign over the portfolio against over 30 defendants, including Allied Telesis, ChinaHuaxin (ALE USA), Hon Hai Precision Industry (Belkin), Panasonic, Proxim Wireless, Resideo Technologies, and Sonim Technologies, and Western Digital. Encryptawave’s new suits have hit D-Link (4:24-cv-00257), Hon Hai (Sharp) (4:24-cv-00274), and TCL (4:24-cv-00272), each in the Eastern District of Texas.

Recorded patent assignments recently made public reveal patents on the move, to an NPE that appears to be collecting assets from a familiar source as prior litigated patents run into PTAB trouble; to an entity managed by what appears to be a relatively new monetization operation standing up; to a recent entrant into the litigation funding space; to entities associated with a frequent plaintiff-side law firm in Texas; and to a host of other plaintiffs recently filing suit.