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IDEAHUB Acquires New Portfolio, Takes Aim at Micron Technology and Others
Patent Market, Patent Watch
Publicly available USPTO assignment records indicate that MIMIRIP LLC, an Ideahub, Inc. plaintiff, picked up a large portfolio of assets from SKhynix in early March of this year. MIMIRIP has now filed two Eastern District of Texas complaints against Micron Technology (2:24-cv-00405, 2:24-cv-00407), both under seal, as well as a complaint before the International Trade Commission (ITC) (337-TA-3751). Proposed respondents include Dell, HP Enterprise (HPE), HP, Kingston Technology, Lenovo, and Tesla, with infringement allegations—with respect to a dozen of those former SKhynix patents—targeting Micron-manufactured DRAM and NAND memory devices, as well as devices containing them, “such as laptops, tablets, servers, solid-state drives, self-driving automotive computers, and automotive media control units”.
June 8, 2024
IdeaHub’s Pantech Secures Jury Verdict, Faces New Standing Challenge
Patent Litigation Feature
On April 1, 2024, an Eastern District of Texas jury returned a verdict in favor of plaintiffs Pantech Corporation and Pantech Wireless, LLC, awarding against OnePlus $7.41M for infringement of three standard essential patents (SEPs) and $2.85M for infringement of the other two wireless communications patents-in-suit. Two weeks earlier, the same two plaintiffs filed a second suit against OnePlus in the same district (5:24-cv-00038), there alleging infringement of eight additional patents through the provision of smartphones and other devices compliant with the LTE and/or 5G cellular networking standards. Meanwhile, in a separate Pantech case also before District Judge Robert W. Schroeder III, LG Electronics (LGE) has just filed a sealed motion to dismiss for lack of standing.
April 20, 2024
Per HP, AX Wireless Did Not Exist Then—and Does Not Exist Now
In Case You Missed It
In July 2022, AX Wireless, LLC—a plaintiff formed in Texas but operating among the monetization programs of South Korea’s Ideahub, Inc. (d/b/a IDEAHUB)—sued Dell, HP, and Lenovo in separate Eastern District of Texas complaints, adding a case in the same district against Acer in February of last year. Asserted now are eight patents described by the plaintiff as “directed to wireless OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) networks and systems”, with infringement allegations targeting compliance with the Wi-Fi 6 networking standard. Ax Wireless pleaded ownership of the asserted patents, but briefing has just completed on HP’s motion to dismiss the case against it for lack of subject matter jurisdiction in which it argues that the plaintiff could not have received the patents from Applied Transform LLC in August 2021 because the plaintiff did not exist on that date.
April 6, 2024
March Closes with the Recordation of Plenty Notable Patent Assignments
Patent Market, Patent Watch
In addition to the announced divestiture of a large tranche of VoIP patents from Avaya to Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC, March 2024 saw several other operating companies—including DXC Technology, Huawei, and SOLiD—unload patent assets. Several NPE enterprises also moved patents around, internally or to other NPEs, seemingly in preparation for new assertion campaigns.
April 4, 2024
A First 2024 Look at Notable Patent Assignments
Patent Market, Patent Watch
Recently recorded patent assignments made public by the USPTO contain noteworthy transfers to multiple plaintiffs now in litigation, including a new source of patents for Apex Beam Technologies LLC, a new source of patents for Pantech Corporation, and a familiar source of patent rights for Crystal Leap Zrt, this time assigning patents directly, though. Movement can also be seen from troubled patent monetization firm IP Edge LLC, as well as movement from various sources to patent broker Allied Security Trust. Take a look.
February 4, 2024
IoT Licensing Hits Snap One Over Former Roper Patents
New Patent Litigation
Last month, IoT Licensing, LLC sued Snap One (3:22-cv-00652) in the Western District of North Carolina, adding a second case to the litigation campaign that it began in the District of Massachusetts against Schneider Electric (1:22-cv-11358) this past August. In both suits, IoT Licensing targets, with the same two wireless communications patents, the provision of devices that support the Zigbee or Z-Wave wireless mesh networking standards: for Snap One, including controllers, dimmers, motion/contact sensors, thermostats, fan speed controllers, garage door modules, sirens, switches, and repeaters; and for Schneider Electric, certain EcoStruxure and SmartStruxure-series products, including controllers, switches, and relay antennas.
January 20, 2023
Pantech’s Mobile Communications Campaign Snags LG Electronics
New Patent Litigation
Ideahub, Inc.’s Pantech Corporation, together with its subsidiary Pantech Wireless, LLC, have accused LG Electronics (LGE) (5:22-cv-00113) of infringing seven wireless communications patents, four of which are asserted in litigation for the first time. The accused products are “mobile phones, tablets, and certain other devices capable of operating on LTE and 5G cellular networks”, the certain other devices including identified telematic control units. The LGE suit joins one active case in this campaign, filed against OnePlus in early June; it is in the earliest stages, Pantech having just filed a motion to effect alternative service.
September 11, 2022
Wi-Fi 6 the Focus of NPE’s Inaugural Litigation Campaign
New Patent Litigation
Texas plaintiff Ax Wireless LLC has launched its first litigation campaign, suing Dell (2:22-cv-00277), HP (2:22-cv-00279), and Lenovo (2:22-cv-00280), each in the Eastern District of Texas. The NPE asserts four patents broadly directed to wireless communications, with the defendants accused of infringement through the provision of devices (e.g., appliance, computers, IoT devices, networking devices, smartphones, and tablets) that are compliant with the Wi-Fi 6 networking standard. Ax Wireless appears to be connected to a web of NPEs that has been steadily growing over the years.
July 30, 2022
IDEAHUB's ImberaTek Files First Suit
New Patent Litigation
ImberaTek, LLC, an Ideahub, Inc. subsidiary, has sued over patents that it acquired from GE Embedded Electronics (f/k/a Imbera Electronics) in early 2020. The defendant is Samsung (2:22-cv-00233), accused in an Eastern District of Texas complaint of infringing six of those patents through the provision of a variety of smartphones, tablets, and virtual reality headsets alleged to “include infringing processors and/or other semiconductor components, such as, for example, [Samsung’s] Exynos 7420 and Exynos 9810 system-on-chips (“SoC”), as well as power management integrated circuits embedding [Qualcomm’s] PMX55, PM8150C, PM8250, PM8350, and PM8350C”.
June 25, 2022
Ideahub’s Pantech Plaintiffs Sue OnePlus
New Patent Litigation
In May, the last open case in the litigation campaign of Ideahub, Inc.’s Pantech Corporation and Pantech Wireless, LLC, filed roughly one year ago against Yulong Computer Telecommunications Scientific Company (Coolpad Technologies), was dismissed with prejudice from the Eastern District of Texas following an April notice of settlement. Now, Pantech has sued OnePlus (5:22-cv-00069) in the same district, again targeting the provision of devices that are compliant with LTE and 5G cellular networking standards, as well as those that support certain touch-based functionalities.
June 8, 2022