Arlington Technologies LLC, a Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC plaintiff, has filed two suits against Comcast (2:24-cv-00768, 2:24-cv-00769) in the Eastern District of Texas. In the first suit, Comcast is accused over the provision of networking products and communications platforms that support features such as Anywhere Calling, BeAnywhere, TWT functionality (as defined in the 802.11ax networking standard), and Wi-Fi Multimedia; in the second, over the use of the Apache Kafka service to “monitor its network infrastructure”. All eight patents-in-suit came to Arlington Technologies from Avaya.

RPX’s last look at notable patent assignments considered the movement of assets to Ueran Technology LLC from Huawei; to AX Wireless, LLC from SOLiD; to VideoLabs, Inc. from DCX US Agility Platform LLC, a subsidiary of DXC Technology; to Flash Uplink LLC from its publicly traded parent Quest Patent Research Corporation (QPRC); to various entities from Ascend Innovation Management, LLC entities; and to Nera Innovations Limited from multiple entities associated with Atlantic IP Services. It is time for a review of additional notable transfers recorded since then.

Publicly available USPTO assignment records now reflect the assignment of more than 700 patent assets from an operating company to Arlington Technologies, LLC, a subsidiary of Texas monetization firm Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC. The transaction is dated March 29, 2024, with the portfolio described as “valuable technology resources for companies worldwide that want to provide the best possible VOIP service and care to their customers”.

Though the deal has yet to be fully reflected in public USPTO assignment records, Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC announced on April 3, 2024 that its subsidiary Arlington Technologies, LLC has acquired a “significant portfolio of patents” related to “pioneering voice over internet protocol (VOIP) technology and include more than 675 families, totaling over 1,500 individual patent assets”. The source is Avaya, described in Dominion’s press release as “a global leader in customer experience and communications solutions”. Per David Pridham, Dominion’s chairman and CEO, in that release, “While these patents are no longer core to Avaya’s cloud-based strategy, they will serve as valuable technology resources for companies worldwide that want to provide the best possible VOIP service and care to their customers”.