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June 2020 RPX Acquisitions Update
Patent Market, Patent Watch
RPX completed a number of deals in June 2020 on behalf of its patent risk management network. The acquisitions occurred within the Automotive; Consumer Electronics and PCs; Mobile Communications and Devices; and Networking market sectors.
August 2, 2020
SMS Link Campaign Continues to Grow in California
New Patent Litigation
Hypertext Technologies LLC has expanded its sole litigation campaign, launched earlier this month, with two new suits filed against Apple (8:19-cv-02404) and Yulong Computer Communications (Coolpad Technologies) (8:19-cv-02365), both in the Central District of California. The single asserted patent, a former Pantech asset, generally relates to jumping from a text message containing a URL to the corresponding website. Both defendants are accused of infringement through the provision of smartphones capable of opening URL links embedded into SMS text messages.
December 13, 2019
In Second Campaign from Set of Former Pantech Patents, Hypertext Technologies Tags Google and One Plus
New Patent Litigation
In May 2019, Cellular Evolution LLC, an entity associated with California law firm Farjami & Farjami LLP, acquired a portfolio of six former Pantech patents. This past June, Cellular Evolution launched a litigation campaign over five of them, hitting AT&T and T-Mobile in separate Eastern District of Texas complaints. In August, the NPE assigned the sixth patent, generally related to jumping from a text message containing a URL to the corresponding website, to Hypertext Technologies LLC, which has just filed its first lawsuits, accusing Alphabet (Google) (8:19-cv-02356) and BBK Electronics (One Plus) (8:19-cv-02358) of infringing the patent through the provision of devices (i.e., smartphones) receiving text messages with “embedded SMS clickable links”.
December 6, 2019