Pointwise Ventures LLC has cleared up apparent confusion over who provides the Snapchat mobile app by dismissing the June 2024 case that it filed in Delaware against SnapOne (the provider of “smart-living” products and services recently acquired by Resideo Technologies) and filing a new complaint in the Western District of Texas against Snap (6:24-cv-00396). Amended and corrected complaints have marked other suits in this campaign, the amendments including material apparently intended to fend off an Alice challenge. At least one of the nearly 20 defendants sued to date has indeed filed a motion attacking the claims of the sole asserted patent as patent-ineligibly directed to the abstract idea of “identifying an object in an image”.

In its sole litigation campaign, begun this past March, Pointwise Ventures LLC has filed its first July case, accusing Etsy (1:24-cv-04706) in an Eastern District of New York complaint of infringing the same “pointing and identification” device patent in suit across all 18 cases filed so far. The new complaint tracks the original pleadings filed in those other cases—but not the amended complaint that Pointwise filed on June 3 in its suit against Microsoft. There, the plaintiff fixed at least one errant statement, added to its prayer for relief a request for a judgment for past damages, and inserted ten paragraphs with material seemingly meant to fend off a future Alice challenge.

The latest pack of suits filed by another of a growing number of New Mexico plaintiffs, Pointwise Ventures LLC, have been assigned to Delaware Chief Judge Colm F. Connolly. The new defendants are e-Bay (1:24-cv-00706), Pinterest (1:24-cv-00708), and Snap One Holdings (1:24-cv-00709), each accused of infringing the same “pointing and identification” device patent that is now in suit against 17 defendants, each sued just since March. Since a set of April 2022 standing orders went into effect, heightened transparency has been imposed on litigants in Judge Connolly’s courtroom, and it is through that heightened transparency that the figure behind this New Mexico plaintiff (at least) has been revealed.

Last month, Pointwise Ventures LLC added separate cases against Alphabet (Google) and Amazon to the litigation begun against nine others this past March, and now the plaintiff has sued Meta Platforms (6:24-cv-00320), Salesforce (6:24-cv-00321), and Walmart (2:24-cv-00443) in the same campaign. The plaintiff asserts a single patent generally related to a “pointing and identification” device, with infringement allegations targeting the support of visual search tools within a range of products.

Alphabet (Google) (6:24-cv-00293) and Amazon (2:24-cv-00751) are the latest defendants to be added to the sole litigation campaign that Pointwise Ventures LLC launched in March of this year. Across the eleven complaints filed to date, the plaintiff asserts a single patent generally related to a “pointing and identification” device. The defendants are accused of infringement through the support of visual search tools; for Google, over the Google Lens tool; and for Amazon, over the Amazon Lens “Shop the look” tool as integrated into Amazon mobile app.

Pointwise Ventures LLC has kicked off a litigation campaign by suing Alibaba (2:24-cv-00182), Blippar (2:24-cv-00182), Farfetch UK (2:24-cv-00182), Glority Global (2:24-cv-00187), Roadget Business (d/b/a SHEIN) (2:24-cv-00189), Samsung (2:24-cv-00190), Stichting Ingka (IKEA North America Services) (2:24-cv-00188), and Syte (2:24-cv-00191) in the Eastern District of Texas, as well as Microsoft (6:24-cv-00139) in the Western District of Texas. The New Mexico plaintiff accuses the defendants of infringing a single patent generally related to a “pointing and identification” device through visual search tools within their respective platforms.