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Duo of Speech Recognition Patent Assignments Bears Watching
Patent Market, Patent Watch
Among patent assignments recently made public by the USPTO is the transfer of more than two dozen assets generally related to speech recognition and/or processing from Nuance Communications to a Delaware LLC. The transaction, dated January 1, 2021, followed by two and a half months the execution of an assignment of two US patents, also broadly directed to speech recognition, to the same LLC from another player in the space. This collection of similar assets suggests that additional patent cases may be on the verge of joining a slew of speech recognition campaigns spread out across nearly all stages of the litigation life cycle.
July 11, 2021
Amazon’s Alexa Products Targeted with Patents from the VoiceBox Technologies Portfolio
New Patent Litigation
Currently available USPTO records indicate that most of the patents held by VoiceBox Technologies, a Washington-based company developing voice assistant and “conversational AI” technology, including significant work for automotive clients, were transferred in March 2018 to VB Assets, LLC, an entity created in Delaware on February 12, 2018. That entity has now turned plaintiff, suing Amazon (1:19-cv-01410) over six of the patents received, all generally related to various aspects of voice processing, targeting the tech giant’s provision of Alexa products. The complaint recounts an extensive history of purported contacts between VoiceBox Technologies and Amazon, beginning in 2011 and ending in April 2017.
July 30, 2019