In early October, five entities recorded a security interest in the patents each respectively holds, naming as the secured party the same Delaware LLC, with a name suggestive of the involvement of third-party litigation funding. Two of the entities launched litigation later in October, one of them already had active litigation underway, the sole case of a fourth closed back in 2012, and the fifth one does not appear ever to have litigated a patent—yet.

Recently formed Texas plaintiff QPrivacy USA LLC has filed its first litigation with a suit against Cisco (2:24-cv-00855) in the Eastern District of Texas. The two asserted patents generally relate to “dynamic management of private data during communication between a remote server and a user’s device”, with the defendant accused of infringement through the provision of certain networking and server devices (i.e., edge networking products, ethernet switches, routers, wireless controllers, and related software products) that support Encrypted Traffic Analytics (ETA) technology.