This past January, TP Lab, Inc. transferred nearly 30 US patents to New Mexico plaintiff Lab Technology LLC, which began suing over its received assets in May-June. Lab Technology filed separate complaints against 18 defendants, including Alphabet (Google), Amazon, AT&T, Bose, Cisco, Ericsson, Intel, LG Electronics (LGE), Lyft, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Samsung, Stryker, Verizon, and Zoom Video Communications, among others. Voluntary dismissals without prejudice ended some of those suits quickly, but now Lab Technology has refiled some complaints, again in the Eastern District of Texas, over the same respective patents, targeting the same respective accused products, against Amazon (2:24-cv-00829) and AT&T (2:24-cv-00830), perhaps signaling some circling back.

Last month’s review of notable patent assignments considered the movement of assets from Avaya to Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC; from Level 3 Communications to Sandpiper CDN, LLC; from Seiko Epson to IPValue’s 138 East LCD Advancements Ltd. and Lumitek Display Technology Ltd.; from Transaction Security to a “BioCrypt Access”; from Fortress Investment Group LLC’s KIP Prod P1 LP to Prodea Automation LLC; from EMM Patents Ltd. to Empire IP LLC; from Siemens and Abdelsalam Helal to Rokiot USA LLC; and from Proxicom Wireless, LLC to Secure Communication Technologies, LLC. While a couple of these entities again feature prominently, this month’s review extends well beyond them to cover the movement of patents away from other operating companies, as well as within several repeat monetization players.

Lab Technology LLC has added separate Western District of Texas cases against Alphabet (Google) (6:24-cv-00334), Cisco (6:24-cv-00338), Intel (6:24-cv-00332), LG Electronics (LGE), (6:24-cv-00336), Lyft (6:24-cv-00333), Microsoft (6:24-cv-00331), NVIDIA (6:24-cv-00337), and Qualcomm (6:24-cv-00335) to the litigation campaign first begun early last month with Eastern District of Texas suits filed against Samsung and Verizon and then expanded earlier this month with separate suits, also filed in the Eastern District of Texas, against Amazon, Anritsu, Bose, Ericsson, Stryker, and Quectel Wireless Solutions. The plaintiff has also filed a District of Colorado case against Zoom Video Communications (1:24-cv-01711), asserting a patent already in suit against AT&T. Currently available USPTO records have yet to reflect the assignment of any of Lab Technology’s six patents-in-suit away from TP Lab, Inc.

Last month, Lab Technology LLC began litigating patents apparently received from TP Lab, Inc. with separate suits filed against Samsung and Verizon in the Eastern District of Texas. One of those two cases already dismissed (without prejudice), the plaintiff has now filed complaints, all in the same venue, against Amazon (2:24-cv-00409), Anritsu (2:24-cv-00411), AT&T (2:24-cv-00412), Bose (2:24-cv-00413), Ericsson (2:24-cv-00414), Stryker (2:24-cv-00416), and Quectel Wireless Solutions (2:24-cv-00415). Overlapping subsets of four patents are asserted across these new complaints, with infringement allegations focused on an array of products, including smart speakers, mobile apps, and telecommunications products.

New Mexico entity Lab Technology LLC has filed separate Eastern District of Texas cases against Samsung (2:24-cv-00324) and Verizon (2:24-cv-00323). Against Samsung the plaintiff asserts five patents apparently received from TP Lab, Inc., three of which are also in suit against Verizon. One of those three patents asserted against both Samsung and Verizon generally relates to “refreshing” a phone’s display with a location-specific “communication service”. Lab Technology is not the first plaintiff to accuse Samsung of infringing that patent, here targeting provision of the Galaxy Watch6 where the prior lawsuit, dismissed with prejudice in January 2019, focused on Samsung smartphones.