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Daedalus Prime Sues MediaTek Alone in Latest Complaint
New Patent Litigation
In August 2022, Daedalus Prime LLC, an entity associated with Daedalus Group LLC, launched its sole litigation campaign with a set of actions, one before the International Trade Commission (ITC) against MediaTek, NXP Semiconductors, certain automakers, and certain automaker suppliers; and three filed in the District of Delaware, one centered around each of MediaTek, NXP, and Qualcomm (but naming as defendants subsets of the proposed ITC respondents). Now, the plaintiff has sued MediaTek (2:24-cv-00235) alone, this time in the Eastern District of Texas. The asserted patents, described in the complaint as “relate[d] to groundbreaking improvements to microprocessor circuitry”, are broadly directed to various aspects of computer circuitry and semiconductor fabrication. The defendant is accused of infringement through the provision of devices containing microprocessors and systems-on-chip (SoCs), including certain Dimensity-series SoCs, that are based on the ARMv8.2 architecture and later.
April 12, 2024
Multifront Litigation Between Daedalus Prime and TSMC Ends
In Case You Missed It
A settlement between Daedalus Prime LLC and TSMC, noticed in mid-October in an action before the International Trade Commission (ITC), has ended the multiple district court cases between these two parties. Eastern District of Texas Chief Judge Rodney Gilstrap posted a heavily redacted order granting a joint motion to dismiss there, with a joint stipulation ending a Delaware declaratory judgment action that TSMC filed last December. TSMC’s departure from the campaign, following Samsung’s this past summer, leaves litigation to continue against Qualcomm, both before the ITC, where post-hearing briefing has gone in, and in district court, where a stay has stopped activity in favor of the ITC action.
November 6, 2023
License Defense in Multifront Dispute Comes into Partial Focus
Patent Litigation Feature
Late last year, TSMC (1:22-cv-01647) filed a declaratory judgment action against Daedalus Prime LLC in the District of Delaware. The suit came in partial response to the complaints that Daedalus Prime had filed against TSMC, together with Samsung, both in September 2022, one before the Eastern District of Texas (now stayed) and another before the International Trade Commission (ITC) (now in claim construction). TSMC’s Delaware complaint was filed under seal, a redacted version of which, together with a responsive motion to dismiss from Daedalus Prime, reveals at least some of the contours of the license defense that TSMC is mounting, including what appears to be the linchpin: whether the assignment of the patents that Daedalus Prime has asserted against TSMC was effective in April 2021, before the date of a key agreement between Intel and TSMC, or thereafter, in June 2022.
March 11, 2023
Daedalus Prime Takes Aim at Samsung, Alone and with Either Qualcomm or TSMC
New Patent Litigation
A couple of weeks after filing a flurry of complaints in both district court and before the International Trade Commission (ITC), Daedalus Prime LLC has done it again, filing three district court complaints (2:22-cv-00352, 2:22-cv-00353, 2:22-cv-00354) and two ITC complaints (337-TA-3640, 337-TA-3641). Each names Samsung as a defendant/proposed respondent, with Qualcomm named as a proposed respondent in one of the ITC complaints and TSMC, in the other. TSMC is also a district court defendant, while Qualcomm is not, although Qualcomm products are mentioned throughout. The litigation centers around a portfolio that Daedalus Prime acquired from Intel in early June 2022.
September 15, 2022
Outflow of Patent Portfolios from Operating Companies Remains Steady
Patent Market, Patent Watch, TPLF
Recent months have seen a number of patent divestments by operating companies made public, with a range of assignees including frequent filers, publicly traded patent assertion entities, third-party funded plaintiffs, and newly formed NPEs. Divestment size has also varied widely—from a single transacted patent to thousands.
August 26, 2022
Hypothetical License Negotiations Happen with the Entity Holding the Patents at the Time of First Infringement
Patent Litigation Feature
In late 2019, NPE Daedalus Group LLC acquired roughly 600 former operating company patents, moving about 500 of those assets to Daedalus Blue LLC in January 2020. Daedalus Blue immediately filed its first litigation over patents from its received portfolio, suing SZ DJI Technology (a Chinese corporation) and DJI Europe (a “European” corporation) in the Western District of Texas over drones sold in the US under the DJI brand. At that point, it looked like direct assertion might be Daedalus Blue’s primary plan, but outbound assignments throughout 2020-2021 have presented an alternate approach, cutting the NPE’s holdings in half—and a remarkable order from District Judge Alan D. Albright, just unsealed in Daedalus Blue’s drone case, suggests why directly litigating can get . . . dicey.
March 12, 2022
IP Edge Acquires More Former Operating Company Patents
Patent Market, Patent Watch
Earlier this month, RPX reported the launch of new campaigns by apparent IP Edge LLC plaintiffs Noblewood IP LLC, Pixeltide Pathway LLC, and Wikeshire IP LLC—each asserting a former IBM patent. Assignment records made public this week suggest that more such litigation could be coming.
February 12, 2022
Daedalus Blue Kicks Off Second Litigation Campaign with Suit Against Oracle
New Patent Litigation
Daedalus Blue LLC has sued Oracle (6:20-cv-00428) over the provision of various products related to enterprise access management, storage and backup, and virtualization. The NPE has asserted five patents from among the over 500 US assets that associated entity Daedalus Group LLC acquired from IBM late last year and passed along to Daedalus Blue in late January. This campaign is the third to arise from those divested IBM assets, the second litigated by Daedalus Blue.
May 30, 2020
New Slingshot Entity Picks Up Remaining Daedalus Group Patents, Acquired from IBM
Patent Market, Patent Watch
The bulk of a large tranche of patents that Daedalus Group LLC picked up from IBM last fall was assigned to Daedalus Blue LLC in late January. A day later, the remainder of those assets—many of them generally related to various aspects of self-driving vehicles—was transferred to Slingshot IOT LLC, a Maryland entity created one week earlier. Daedalus Blue has already begun litigating its portion of that portfolio; given its apparent origins, Slingshot IOT may not lag by much.
February 14, 2020
Daedalus Blue Hits Drones in First Litigation Arising from Notable Portfolio Transacted Last Fall
New Patent Litigation
The first litigation over a large portfolio of patents transferred last fall from IBM to Daedalus Group LLC has been filed in the Western District of Texas. Plaintiff Daedalus Blue LLC has accused DJI (6:20-cv-00073) of infringing three of those former IBM patents, allegedly received from Daedalus Group “on or about January 24, 2020”. DJI’s accused products are drones, with the asserted patents generally related to navigating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
February 2, 2020