Rothschild Patent Imaging LLC (RPI), a plaintiff associated with Leigh M. Rothschild, has filed cases against BH Security (d/b/a Brink Security) (3:25-cv-00650) in the Northern District of Texas and Bumble (7:25-cv-00129) in the Western District of Texas. The two patents-in-suit are broadly directed to the wireless exchange of digital images between devices. BH Security is accused of infringing one of the patents through the provision of cameras that support features for filtering captured images before transmitting alerts and data to a paired mobile device running the Brinks Home app, while Bumble is accused of infringing a different patent through features that allow users to receive matches based on a distance filter on the Bumble platform.

Eastern District of Texas Magistrate Judge Roy S. Payne has granted a motion from Starbucks to withdraw its prior motion for an order protecting its lead counsel from deposition by Analytical Technologies, LLC (AT), a Leigh M. Rothschild-linked plaintiff. That motion was mooted by AT’s withdrawal of the subpoena. The court also denied a motion to compel responses to certain Starbucks requests for admissions but ordered AT to supplement its responses to two Starbucks interrogatories, one asking AT to “[d]escribe with specificity all facts that [it] contend[s] render [its] corporate form legitimate and not a sham” and, “[e]xcluding outside counsel”, to “identify with specificity any and all persons with decision-making authority over This Litigation”.

An Eastern District of Texas hearing scheduled for last week in a case filed by Analytical Technologies, LLC, a Leigh M. Rothschild-linked plaintiff, against Starbucks was postponed to this week. The court there is to consider, at least, a motion filed by Rothschild himself to dismiss certain counterclaims in which Starbucks challenges Rothschild’s entire monetization model—characterized elsewhere as inspired by the framework of former top-filer IP Edge LLC—as “an extensive thimblerig” intended to shield Rothschild from any negative litigation repercussions. In the meantime, Starbucks has filed a motion to compel discovery from Analytical Technologies and for an order protecting its lead counsel from the plaintiff’s deposition notice.

Qualitative Data Solutions, LLC (QDS) has sued HaptX (2:25-cv-01064) and SenseGlove (2:25-cv-01063) in separate Central District of California complaints targeting the provision of wireless gloves that work in conjunction with AR/VR headsets. Two patents generally related to “communicating a message to a user” through a “tactual device” are asserted in the cases, which together mark the first new campaign of 2025 for the monetization operation of frequent named inventor and plaintiff Leigh M. Rothschild. That operation is under some current pressure in the Eastern District of Texas, through a campaign filed by Rothschild-linked plaintiff Analytical Technologies, LLC; for details, see “Stage Set for Starbucks-Rothschild Showdown” (February 2025).

Late last year, Starbucks began taking a run at the monetization operation of Leigh M. Rothschild. Having been sued by Rothschild-linked plaintiff Analytical Technologies, LLC, Starbucks filed counterclaims against Rothschild himself (and others), since challenging the whole operation—characterized elsewhere as inspired by the framework of former top-filer IP Edge LLC—as “an extensive thimblerig” intended to shield Rothschild from any negative litigation repercussions. Eastern District of Texas Magistrate Judge Roy S. Payne has set a hearing for February 19, 2025, technically to consider the motion to dismiss filed by Rothschild himself, but briefing over a related motion to strike other Starbucks counterclaims has also completed. Others have taken their own runs at Rothschild before.

Touchpoint Projection Innovations LLC has voluntarily dismissed, without prejudice, its Eastern District of Texas action against Check Point Software Technologies, refiling substantially the same complaint (3:25-cv-00279) in the Northern District of Texas, which imposes heightened disclosure requirements on litigants. In connection with the new suit, M. Scott Fuller of Garteiser Honea, PLLC has signed a “Certificate of Interested Persons/Disclosure Statement” that, on its face, fails to provide “a complete 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”, as local rules require. A standard notice has been docketed, directing counsel with particularity “to review Rules 3.1, 7.4, and 81.2, regarding certificates of interested persons”.

Touchpoint Projection Innovations LLC, a plaintiff tied to prolific monetization figure Leigh M. Rothschild, has launched a second litigation campaign by suing Forcepoint (7:24-cv-00305) in the Western District of Texas and Broadcom (2:24-cv-00980), Check Point Software Technologies (2:24-cv-00981), and Zscaler (2:24-cv-00982) in the Eastern District of Texas. Asserted is one of two patents that Touchpoint received from inventor-controlled Everis in a June 2021 assignment. This plaintiff litigated the other one from February 2023, when sued in a declaratory judgment action filed by Leaseweb in the Eastern District of Virgina, through last month, when separate affirmative cases against Cloudflare and Thales (Imperva) were dismissed from the Eastern District of Texas.

A couple of years ago, on the eve of trial in Florida state court, plaintiff Constance Kazanjian and defendant Leigh M. Rothschild and various of his controlled entities, also named as defendants, settled a lawsuit by which Kazanjian sought, among other things, payment of “10% of all monies received from pending cases under $500[K] and . . . 20% of all monies received of pending cases over” $500K. Kazanjian’s complaint suggests that Rothschild turned to patent monetization because of difficulty selling the portfolio of patents on which he is the named inventor and that Kazanjian herself is the mastermind behind the web of litigating Rothschild-linked plaintiffs that has grown up since, Kazanjian apparently taking inspiration from a company that Rothschild allegedly hired in the early days: none other than MAVEXAR LLC, the consulting arm of Texas monetization firm IP Edge LLC.

AT&T (2:24-cv-00588) is the latest defendant to be added to the sole litigation campaign of Quantum Technology Innovations, LLC (QTI), launched in April 2022. In the new Eastern District of Complaint, AT&T is accused of infringing a single patent—generally related to a server running a computer program for distributing content over a network—through the provision of the AT&T Content Delivery Network (CDN). At issue is the alleged use of a “geographically distributed network of edge servers or Points of Presence (POPs) to provide immediate content access for the end users”.

So far this month, Quantum Technology Innovations, LLC (QTI)—a plaintiff associated with monetization figure Leigh M. Rothschild—has expanded its sole litigation campaign with suits against EchoStar (DISH Network) (2:24-cv-00420) in the Eastern District of Texas and AMC Networks (1:24-cv-04745), BroadwayHD (1:24-cv-04679), and Warner Bros. Discovery (1:24-cv-04750) in the Southern District of New York. At issue across each complaint is a single patent generally related to a server running a computer program for distributing content over a network. The defendants are accused of infringement through the provision of their respective streaming services and related apps (Sling TV, AMC+, BroadwayHD, and Max, respectively). At issue are features such as streaming content at various quality levels, live TV streaming, servers and content delivery networks (CDNs), and streaming analytics.