Assignments recently made public by the USPTO reflect, among other things, the apparent divestitures from a networking provider of roughly a quarter of its former US patent assets and from a smart projection company to a European monetization firm of what appears to be all of its US assets, as well as a double-bounce for the patent portfolio of a customer experience (CX) vendor exiting bankruptcy protection late last year and an ongoing flow of wireless communications patents to a Texas monetization firm.

On the heels of an Alice setback in that District of Delaware cases that it filed in June 2019, Aegis 11 S.A., an affiliate of Sisvel International S.A. (d/b/a Sisvel Group), has added Northern District of Georgia suits against Funai (1:20-cv-03890) and Hisense (1:20-cv-03891) to the campaign. Last year, Aegis 11 hit Belkin, CommScope (ARRIS, Ruckus Wireless), NETGEAR, Roku, and TCL (TTE Technology) with separate cases targeting devices compatible with the 802.11ac wireless networking standard. The defendants challenged one of the three patents-in-suit as patent-ineligibly directed to the abstract idea of “generating and using random numbers for the purpose of mutual authentication”. Earlier this month, District Judge Richard G. Andrews agreed with a magistrate recommendation that that patent be invalidated. Now, Aegis 11 has asserted the remaining two patents in its Georgia complaints, adding a third, all of them originally sourced from LG Electronics (LGE). The NPE has also moved to amend its June 2019 complaints to assert the new patent.

Aegis 11 S.A., an affiliate of Sisvel International S.A. (d/b/a Sisvel Group), has launched a litigation campaign targeting devices compatible with the 802.11ac wireless networking standard. The defendants are Belkin (1:19-cv-01161), CommScope (ARRIS, Ruckus Wireless) (1:19-cv-01164), NETGEAR (1:19-cv-01162), Roku (1:19-cv-01163), and TCL (TTE Technology) (1:19-cv-01165), each sued in the District of Delaware and against which the NPE asserts the same three former LG Electronics (LGE) patents.