Sovereign Peak Ventures, LLC (SPV), a Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC plaintiff, has filed suit against Unizyx (Zyxel Communications) (2:24-cv-00840) in the Eastern District of Texas over six wireless communications patents already in suit in this campaign over a large portfolio of former Panasonic assets. SPV targets the provision of wireless networking products here; in the other active suit in this campaign, against OnePlus Technology, SPV focuses on a subset of wireless charging patents from that same large portfolio.

In an Eastern District of Texas complaint, Sovereign Peak Ventures, LLC (SPV), a Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC plaintiff, has sued OnePlus Technology (2:24-cv-00654) over wireless charging patents from its large portfolio of former Panasonic assets. The new case follows the June 2024 dismissal with prejudice, in light of a settlement, in a Western District of Texas suit that SPV filed in November 2023 against HMD Global, which itself followed the dismissal of a previous case, against HP Enterprise (HPE). SPV has been proceeding in roughly serial fashion—against LG Electronics, TCL, Hisense, Acer, ASUSTek, HP, TP-Link, HPE, and HMD Global—since this litigation campaign began, back in April 2020.

Sovereign Peak Ventures, LLC (SPV), a Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC plaintiff, has sued HMD Global (6:23-cv-00759) in the Western District of Texas. The only other active case in this campaign is underway there, before District Judge Alan D. Albright; TP-Link has contested personal jurisdiction, prompting SPV to file a notice of intent to conduct venue-related discovery. SPV targets HMD Global over the provision of Nokia-branded smartphones that support Wi-Fi Direct or Qi wireless charging, asserting five from among its large portfolio of former Panasonic assets.

Its trio of cases against HP headed for the exits, Sovereign Peak Ventures, LLC (SPV) has filed suit against HP Enterprise (HPE) (2:23-cv-00009). All four wireless communications patents asserted against HPE in the new Eastern District of Texas complaint have appeared previously in this campaign, which began back in April 2020 over a large portfolio of assets acquired from Panasonic. Infringement allegations target networking equipment, including access points offered through HPE subsidiary Aruba Networks.

Sovereign Peak Ventures, LLC (SPV), an entity associated with Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC, has sued TP-Link (6:22-cv-01273) in the Western District of Texas over the provision of networking devices that support the IEEE 802.11 k/r networking standards or Wi-Fi Direct protocol. The plaintiff asserts six patents broadly directed to wireless communications, three previously seen in this campaign and three asserted for the first time.

Sovereign Peak Ventures, LLC (SPV) has filed three Western District of Texas lawsuits against HP (6:22-cv-00917, 6:22-cv-00918, 6:22-cv-00919) over subsets of former Panasonic patents, targeting across the cases the provision of devices that support Wi-Fi Direct, the H.265/HEVC codec, and certain LTE networking capabilities via modems provided by Intel and Qualcomm. This new litigation follows last week’s dismissal with prejudice, in light of a settlement, of a trio of suits brought by the Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC plaintiff against ASUSTek this past February, as well as last week’s stay of a pair of cases against Acer, to facilitate settlement, filed last December.

2021 saw former Honeywell, Panasonic, Sony, and TCL Technology Group portfolios sail into Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC—as well as hundreds of Seiko Epson patents, according to data recently made public by the USPTO. Meanwhile, the Texas-based monetization firm has filed a handful of new cases so far this month, all asserting former operating company patents.

Three of the four “peak ventures” of Texas monetization firm Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC, those with already active campaigns, have filed additional litigation in the first couple of weeks of April, with Sovereign Peak Ventures, LLC (SPV) hitting LG Electronics (LGE) (2:20-cv-00107, 2:20-cv-00108, 2:20-cv-00109) over patents from a large portfolio of former Panasonic assets. That litigation follows new suits from Monument Peak Ventures, LLC (MPV), hitting Hitachi over patents from a large portfolio of former Kodak assets, and Vista Peak Ventures LLC (VPV), hitting various defendants held by the Chinese Government (Nanjing, TPV) over patents from a large portfolio of former NEC assets. Dominion received each of these portfolios from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV), with which the firm has had a deepening relationship. Dominion’s fourth “peak venture”, Liberty Peak Ventures, LLC (LPV), in receipt of a large portfolio of former American Express patents, has yet to assert any of those patents in litigation.

The last couple of years have seen Texas monetization firm Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC shift away from the acquisition of smaller families of patents from various sources toward the acquisition of large portfolios of assets—of former Kodak patents in March 2017, of former NEC patents in February 2018, and of former American Express patents in March 2018, all from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV), as well as a large portfolio of assets acquired directly from Panasonic beginning in October 2018. Dominion (through subsidiaries of its litigation arm Monument Patent Holdings, LLC) has asserted patents from those large-portfolio acquisitions in litigation, and while it has continued litigating assets acquired prior to this strategy shift, that activity has dropped off. Assignment records recently made public by the USPTO suggest that, in addition, Dominion has begun to shed some of the smaller families that it had acquired under its earlier model.

This past week, the USPTO made public new details about Panasonic’s March 2019 patent assignment to Sovereign Peak Ventures, LLC (SPV), an affiliate of Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC. Meanwhile, SPV has an ongoing campaign asserting a subset of patents received in a large-portfolio acquisition from Panasonic last year, which has so far hit Anker, Feit Electric, Lifi Labs, and SengLED.