Frequent patent plaintiff-side counsel Ramey LLP has taken in recent years to filing a certificate of interested parties in connection with cases regardless of whether local rules in the district in which they are filed require one. The recent implosion of Ramey LLP’s relationship with AiPi, prompting widespread Ramey LLP withdrawals and the repeated appearance of Whitestone Law, raised the question, would those certificates of interested parties, however questionable their accuracy, be ignored or amended. At least one Ramey-to-Whitestone campaign provides an answer.

This past November, District of Colorado Magistrate Judge N. Reid Neureiter ordered William P. Ramey III of Ramey LLP to show cause in writing “why he should not be referred to the Court’s Committee on Conduct for his neglectful behavior in this case, including his failure to appear at a scheduling conference and his failure to serve any discovery”. Ramey’s response was to address five specific pieces of information “relevant to the issues of whether Mr. Ramey and his firm are spread too thin to provide competent representation”. Ramey filed his response—the contents of which have pulled back the curtain on a broad patent monetization operation, including arguably improper legal work, numerous inaccurate certificates of interested parties, and third-party litigation funding lurking in the shadows.

Oracle (6:22-cv-00410), Salesforce (6:22-cv-00409), and Zoho (6:22-cv-00408) are the latest defendants to be added to the sole litigation campaign launched by individual inventor Peter Henrik Pedersen in November 2021 with suits against Alphabet (Google), Mailgun Technologies, Microsoft, and Ziff Davis (f/k/a J2 Global). The asserted patent generally relates to managing “electronic messages” based on a recipient profile that is used to determine “where, when and how specific types of messages from specific messengers are delivered to the recipient”, with the defendants accused of infringement through the provision of their respective email marketing platforms.

Individual inventor Peter Henrik Pedersen has added a case against Verizon (Yahoo) (6:21-cv-01308) to the litigation campaign that he began with separate November 2021 suits against Alphabet (Google), Ziff Davis (f/k/a J2 Global), Mailgun Technologies, and Microsoft in the Western District of Texas. Little has happened in the prior cases as yet, beyond extending deadlines to respond to the complaints. In this latest complaint, Pedersen targets certain email filtering features within the AOL and Yahoo Mail webmail platforms.

Peter Henrik Pedersen has kicked off a litigation campaign over a single patent on which he is the sole named inventor. The patent generally concerns managing “electronic messages” based on a recipient profile that is used to determine “where, when and how specific types of messages from specific messengers are delivered to the recipient”. Pedersen has filed four cases, one against each of Alphabet (Google) (6:21-cv-01152) and Microsoft (6:21-cv-01154), over their webmail products, as well as against J2 Global (6:21-cv-01155) and Mailgun Technologies (6:21-cv-01153), over their mass marketing email products.