Another entity formed by Bjorn Markus Jakobsson has kicked off litigation, RightQuestion LLC suing Samsung (2:21-cv-00238) over two biometric authentication patents. Targeted in the new Eastern District of Texas complaint is Samsung’s provision of Knox Vault, a secure information storage system that uses biometric authentication and is included in its Galaxy S21 smartphone. Each of Jakobsson’s prior litigation campaigns, the first filed through Crypto Research, LLC and the second, through ZapFraud, Inc. saw the asserted patents challenged with an early Alice motion—leading to very different results.

ZapFraud, Inc., an entity formed by Bjorn Markus Jakobsson, has initiated a litigation campaign, suing Barracuda Networks (1:19-cv-01687), FireEye (1:19-cv-01688), Fortinet (1:19-cv-01689), Mimecast (1:19-cv-01690), and Proofpoint (1:19-cv-01691) in separate cases filed in the District of Delaware. A single patent naming Jakobsson as sole named inventor, and which generally relates to secure electronic communications, is asserted in each complaint with the defendants accused of infringement through the provision of email security products and services that allegedly “protect customers against email-based targeted social engineering attacks known as Business Email Compromise”, including emails where the sender is impersonating someone else.