Its separate 2021 cases against Acer and HP now closed, Shamrock Innovations, LLC has filed suit against Lenovo (5:22-cv-00102) over the same two patents, generally related to a serial link connecting two computing modules. The Eastern District of North Carolina complaint again targets the provision of computers that include a Serial ATA interface. Shamrock received the asserted patents from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV) in an assignment dated in December 2017, with public records suggesting a more complicated connection between IV and the plaintiff.  

Early this year, Shamrock Innovations, LLC and Acer, sued by Shamrock last July, filed a notice of settlement in that case, leading to a March 5 dismissal. The NPE plaintiff has now filed a new complaint, accusing HP (1:21-cv-00222) of infringing the same two patents, generally related to a serial link between two computing “modules”, again through the provision of computers that include a Serial ATA interface. While the second case has been filed in the ever more popular Western District of Texas, the selection of the Austin division has landed the litigation before a different judge.

Shamrock Innovations, LLC has filed its first lawsuit, nearly three years after acquiring its patent assets from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV). The NPE has accused Acer (6:20-cv-00696) of infringing two of those patents, generally related to a serial link between two computing “modules” through the provision of Acer computers that include a Serial ATA interface. The plaintiff pleads that the patented technology, coined “Split-Bridge”, was developed to “address data transfer performance issues in data processing and computing devices”.