IP Edge’s Stormborn Technologies LLC has sued Danaher (OTT Hydromet d/b/a Sutron) (1:20-cv-00458), Lockheed Martin (1:20-cv-00458), and NexGo (1:20-cv-00529) in three separate districts: the Eastern District of Virginia, the Northern District of Ohio, and the District of Delaware, respectively. A single patent generally related to spread-spectrum data transmission has been asserted in this campaign. The patent was received from NPE Linex Technologies, Inc., with infringement allegations focusing on the provision of devices compatible with the HSPA telecommunication standard: the Sutron GPRS-1 Cell Modem, Lockheed Martin UCP PCN portable base station, and NexGo’s mobile payment terminals, respectively.

This past April Zyrcuits IP LLC, an entity affiliated with monetization firm IP Edge LLC, picked up a portfolio of 30 US patents, generally related to spread-spectrum wireless data transmission, from NPE Linex Technologies, Inc. In the months since then, that portfolio has given rise to four litigation campaigns: the first by Zyrcuits IP itself (at the end of August), the second by Aperture Net LLC (at the end of September), and two more, by Hydro Net LLC and by Stormborn Technologies LLC, respectively (at the end of October). On October 24, a subset of those former Linex patents were transferred from Zyrcuits IP to new IP Edge entity Pinnacle Licensing LLC, raising the possibility that the end of November might bring yet more litigation over this portfolio.

Monetization firm IP Edge LLC has filed a fourth litigation campaign over a patent from among those received in a 30-asset transaction in April 2019 with former litigating NPE Linex Technologies, Inc. Colorfully named Stormborn Technologies LLC has accused CalAmp (1:19-cv-02037), GE (GE MDS) (1:19-cv-02038), Hexagon (Leica Geosystems) (1:19-cv-02039), Trimble (1:19-cv-02040), and UNICOM Global (US Robotics) (1:19-cv-02041) of infringing a single spread-spectrum wireless data transmission patent through the provision of mobile and/or networking devices, naming the CalAmp TTU-1230 asset tracking device; the Leica iCON gps 80 receiver; the GE MDS Orbit wireless network platform; the Trimble TDC150 handheld receiver; and the Courier USR3513 Cellular Gateway, respectively.

Monetization firm IP Edge LLC has begun farming out the portfolio of former Linex Technologies, Inc. patents that it acquired this past April—to LLCs that presumably will soon be litigating them. Generally, the portfolio relates to various aspects of spread-spectrum wireless data transmission, with litigation already begun by Zyrcuits IP LLC, the IP Edge entity to take possession of the 30 patents. Zyrcuits IP recently launched litigation of its own from the portfolio—IP Edge’s fifteenth known campaign of 2019—by hitting Samsung, Signify, Spectrum Brands, Wink Labs, and Wirepath Home Systems (Control4). More campaigns may be coming: from Aperture Net LLC, Hydro Net LLC, and/or Stormborn Technologies LLC, each of which received at least two former Linex patents from Zyrcuits IP on September 18, 2019.