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Second Rothschild Plaintiff Sues SiriusXM
New Patent Litigation
The bulk of the Eastern District of Texas complaint that Quantum Technology Innovations, LLC just filed against Liberty Media (SiriusXM) (2:24-cv-00246) is devoted to recounting the prosecution history of the sole patent-in-suit and to pleading defensively against an Alice attack. The intensity of that focus is perhaps motivated by the SiriusXM motion challenging the patents asserted against it this past December—by Display Technologies, LLC, which, like Quantum, is a plaintiff associated with Leigh M. Rothschild—as patent-ineligibly drawn to the abstract idea of “transferring a digital media file”. There, SiriusXM cites a prior court order characterizing Display’s “goal”: to pursue a “’nuisance-value’ settlement” through a “ransom” that SiriusXM does not wish to pay.
April 20, 2024
Wyoming Plaintiff Tied to Familiar Figure Targets Apple’s Siri
New Patent Litigation
Last May, Wyoming Technology Licensing LLC sued Clinc in the Eastern District of Michigan over the provision of Clinc AI, a conversational artificial intelligence system used for customer chats. A dismissal without prejudice ended that case in late August. Now, in an Eastern District of Texas complaint, Wyoming Technology accuses Apple (2:24-cv-00128) of infringing a related patent, generally related to analyzing an “information request” and communicating “prepared instructions” on a “consumer device display”, through the provision of natural language processing and semantic analysis tools used by the Siri voice assistant on mobile devices.
February 23, 2024
Rothschild Revives Wireless Charging Campaign
New Patent Litigation
Following the dismissal of its last active case in June 2020, Electronic Edison Transmission Technologies, LLC—an entity associated with prolific inventor and frequent plaintiff Leigh M. Rothschild—has revived its sole litigation campaign with a suit against Samsung (2:24-cv-00105) in the Eastern District of Texas. The plaintiff asserts three patents, two of which are newly asserted in litigation, generally related to power transmission between devices. Samsung is accused of infringement through the provision of devices (e.g., smartphones and smart watches) that support the Wireless PowerShare or Reverse Charging features, both of which are alleged to be compliant with the Qi wireless charging standard.
February 22, 2024
CD Cal Local Rules Confirm Team Behind Recent Health Tracking Campaign
New Patent Litigation
So far this month, Mobile Health Innovative Solutions, LLC (MHIS) has added cases against Samsung (2:24-cv-00106) and Zepp Health (Zepp North America) (2:24-cv-01030) to the litigation campaign that it began in December against Withings and expanded in January against Apple. As the plaintiff’s name suggests, this campaign is another health tracking affair, with a single patent generally related to a wearable device with sensors that can be used to determine a user’s stress level asserted. The case against Zepp was filed in the Central District of California, local rules of which require MHIS to disclose who is behind this litigation.
February 16, 2024
Stage Nearly Set for “Patent Troll Protection Act” Showdown Between Rothschild and Valve
Patent Litigation Feature
Valve has filed a second amended complaint in the Western District of Washington case (2:23-cv-01016) begun last July against Leigh M. Rothschild and three associated entities Display Technologies, LLC; Patent Asset Management, LLC; and Rothschild Broadcast Distribution Systems, LLC (RBDS), together with Rothschild counsel Meyler Legal, PLLC and its principal Samuel Meyler. The defendants have refiled a motion to dismiss the complaint in which they argue that Valve is “attempting to make ‘a mountain out of a mole hill’ by characterizing a simple clerical error as some sort of legal malfeasance” under the state’s “Patent Troll Protection Act”. Meanwhile, venue challenges in Eastern District of Texas cases filed this past September by three other Rothschild plaintiffs—Quantum Technology Innovations, LLC; Social Positioning Input Systems, LLC (SPIS); and Symbology Innovations, LLC—are ripening.
February 14, 2024
Rothschild Plaintiff Adds New Defendants to Wireless Connectivity Campaign
New Patent Litigation
Display Technologies, LLC, an entity associated with prolific inventor and frequent plaintiff Leigh M. Rothschild, has expanded its wireless connectivity campaign with suits against Microsoft (Activision Publishing) (2:24-cv-00043) and Wondershare Technology Group (2:24-cv-00046) in the Eastern District of Texas. The plaintiff asserts two patents generally related to transferring media files wirelessly between devices. Activision is accused of infringement through the provision of videogames that implement voice chat functionalities, while Wondershare is accused over the MobileTrans app, which supports features for transferring files from an iPhone to an Android smartphone.
February 2, 2024
Pay As You Go Hits T-Mobile, Too
New Patent Litigation
Pay As You Go, LLC, a plaintiff associated with monetization figure Leigh M. Rothschild, has sued Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile) (2:23-cv-00501) in the Eastern District of Texas roughly three weeks after hitting AT&T and Verizon in the same district. Pay As You Go targets T-Mobile over the provision of the feature within its wireless telecommunication services allowing users to purchase such services “in blocks of data that can be used in a single month on the customer-user’s device”.
November 3, 2023
Wireless Carriers Sued in Rothschild’s Pay As You Go Campaign
New Patent Litigation
Pay As You Go, LLC has added suits against AT&T (2:23-cv-00462) and Verizon (2:23-cv-00463) to the sole litigation campaign it launched in April 2023 with a suit against Mint Mobile. The plaintiff describes the asserted patent as generally related to “telecommunications services and methods that enable a user and/or other responsible party to make payments as the user uses the telecommunication services”, with the defendants accused of infringement through the provision of wireless telecommunication services that support features for allowing users to purchase such services in “blocks of data that can be used in a single month on the customer-user’s device”.
October 12, 2023
Valve Responds to Repeated Demands with Lawsuit of Its Own
Patent Litigation Feature
This past week, Valve Corporation filed a Western District of Washington complaint (2:23-cv-01016) naming as defendants prolific inventor and plaintiff Leigh M. Rothschild and three associated entities Display Technologies, LLC; Patent Asset Management, LLC; and Rothschild Broadcast Distribution Systems, LLC (RBDS), together with Rothschild counsel Meyler Legal, PLLC and its principal Samuel Meyler. Valve pleads claims of bad-faith patent assertion and unfair business practices under the Washington State Consumer Protection Act, arising via demands sent to Valve concerning the alleged infringement of patents that Valve pleads are covered by a 2016 license agreement with Display Technologies. Valve also pleads breach of contract, further asking the court for declaratory judgments, one for invalidity and another for unenforceability. Materials attached to Valve’s complaint suggest that the universe of “demands” from Rothschild-tied entities extends beyond those from the defendants named here.
July 15, 2023
New Campaign Targets Network Security Products
New Patent Litigation
Speech Transcription, LLC has initiated its first litigation, suing Cisco (6:23-cv-00376), Huawei (3:23-cv-01155), and Oracle (6:23-cv-00377) over a single patent generally related to a platform for endpoint security management that allows the use of multiple products from third party vendors. In connection with its suit against Huawei, filed in the Northern District of Texas (which imposes heightened disclosure requirements on litigants), the plaintiff, which appears to be connected to a well-known figure in patent monetization circles, identifies only itself and litigation counsel, Garteiser Honea PC, on a list of “all persons, associations of persons, firms, partnerships, corporations, guarantors, insurers, affiliates, parent or subsidiary corporations, or other legal entities that are financially interested in the outcome of the case”.
May 21, 2023