In August, Telcom Ventures LLC filed its first lawsuit, accusing Samsung of infringing eight patents through the provision of Samsung Pay in an Eastern District of Texas complaint. In a new Southern District of Florida case, the inventor-controlled plaintiff has asserted the same eight patents, this time against Apple (1:24-cv-23837), targeting the provision of the Apple Pay service and iPhones that support it, as used together to make mobile payments via biometric authentication and near-field communication (NFC).

In a new Eastern District of Texas complaint, Telcom Ventures LLC has accused Samsung (2:24-cv-00691) of infringing eight patents that name as an inventor Rajendra (“Raj”) Singh, the plaintiff’s CEO. Telcom Ventures targets Samsung over the provision of Samsung Pay and various Samsung smartphones that support it, as used together to make mobile payments using biometric authentication and either near-field communication (NFC) or magnetic secure transmission (MST) technologies.