As recently reported by RPX in its Q4 in Review, NPE litigation targeting the Financial Services sector rose in 2021, with double the number of defendants added to litigation compared to 2020. The plaintiffs active in this sector today include several inventor-controlled NPEs, a publicly traded patent assertion entity, two Texas-based monetization firms, and multiple prolific litigants.

Lupercal LLC has kept alive its campaign targeting image upload in connection with the mobile check deposit features of financial institutions. The NPE, apparently associated with monetization firm IPValuation Partners, LLC (IPVal), has sued Discover (1:21-cv-05415) in the Northern District of Illinois, asserting the same patent, generally related to a tool for submitting images on a device, that has been at issue since this campaign began, in March 2019.

Lupercal LLC, an NPE apparently associated with monetization firm IPValuation Partners, LLC (IPVal), has added two more cases to the litigation campaign that it launched just over one year ago. The new defendants are Cullen/Frost Bankers (6:20-cv-00358) and PNC Financial Services Group (2:20-cv-00136), each accused of infringing a single patent broadly directed to a tool for submitting images on a device. With cases against Citibank, Comerica Bank, and Plains Capital Bank having been dismissed earlier this year, and one still open against JPMorgan Chase, Lupercal continues to target image upload in connection with the mobile check deposit features of financial institutions.

Lupercal LLC, an apparent affiliate of monetization firm IPValuation Partners, LLC (IPVal), has launched a litigation campaign, suing Citibank (6:19-cv-00201) and Plains Capital (6:19-cv-00202) in the Western District of Texas. The plaintiff asserts a single patent, generally related to “media submission”, from a family familiar to litigation, having members previously asserted against Apple, BlackBerry, HTC, Facebook, LG Electronics, Motorola Mobility, Multiply, Photobucket, Samsung, and Twitter. The new complaints target image uploading in the mobile check deposit features of the Citi Mobile and Plains Capital Mobile Banking apps.