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The Virtual Bezel Is Back
New Patent Litigation
Onscreen Dynamics, LLC has filed a 2024 round of complaints, suing AutoNation (AN Dealership Holding, AutoNation Financial Services) (2:24-cv-00249), Carmax (Carmax Auto Superstores) (2:24-cv-00247), Carvana (2:24-cv-00248), Enterprise Holdings (EAN Holdings) (2:24-cv-00251), and Snell Motor Company (Land Rover Frisco) (2:24-cv-00250) over the sale of automobiles that incorporate infotainment systems with certain touchscreen interfaces. The asserted patents generally relate to a device having a touchscreen display with a “virtual bezel”—i.e., a portion of the display, generally a border area, that responds differently to gestures or touches than does the rest of the display.
April 20, 2024
Patent Armory, Fighting Earlier Motions to Dismiss, Continues Filing into April
New Patent Litigation
Patent Armory Inc. has sued Adidas (6:24-cv-00173) and American Express (6:24-cv-00174) in a campaign that has largely focused on certain routing/triage tools within the defendants' customer service systems—though this latest batch of complaints cites exhibits allegedly detailing the accused products that are missing from their respective dockets. Appearing in the pair of Western District of Texas complaints are the same five patents that Patent Armory has asserted against a long list of defendants, including, at least originally, Hertz. There, Hertz has filed three successive motions for judgment on the pleadings, among other things challenging the patents asserted against it as patent-ineligibly drawn, under Alice, to the abstract idea of “evaluating communications data to make a routing decision”.
April 5, 2024
Minotaur Systems Files Third Round of Suits in Vehicle Networking Campaign
New Patent Litigation
Following a dismissal of its last active case in early January, Minotaur Systems LLC has filed a new round of complaints in its sole litigation campaign, suing AnyConnect Private (2:24-cv-00201) in the Eastern District of Texas; Motive Technologies (1:24-cv-00349), Nauto (1:24-cv-00351), Netradyne (1:24-cv-00352), and Samsara (1:24-cv-00353) in the District of Delaware; Safe Fleet Holdings (1:24-cv-02062) in the Eastern District of New York; and Trimble (1:24-cv-00789) in the District of Colorado. Two patents are asserted in overlapping sets, with the defendants accused of infringement through the provision of vehicle-related networking products, including dash cams (or systems incorporating them) and/or fleet management solutions.
March 22, 2024
Three More Defendants Sued over Audio “Hush” Patent
New Patent Litigation
RecepTrexx LLC has asserted its audio level reduction patent in new complaints filed against DEI Holdings (Sound United) (1:24-cv-03200), Magic Leap (1:24-cv-00340), and Sonos (1:24-cv-00339). Targeted is the provision of devices that respond to voice commands to adjust volume. Magic Leap and Sonos have been sued in the District of Delaware, where the cases may be assigned to Chief Judge Colm F. Connolly (who presided over a brief prior case concerning this same patent); Sound United has been hit in the District of New Jersey, starting the 30-day clock to comply with a local rule requiring the disclosure of certain third-party litigation funding.
March 15, 2024
InnoMemory Files Fresh Round of Complaints in Memory Circuitry Campaign
New Patent Litigation
Amarillo National Bank (1:24-cv-00232), Bank Iowa (Citizens State Bank) (2:24-cv-00152), Capital One (2:24-cv-00154), Citigroup (1:24-cv-00231), Fidelity Bank of Texas (1:24-cv-00229), JPMorgan Chase (2:24-cv-00151), Prosperity Bancshares (2:24-cv-00150), Regions Financial (Regions Bank) (1:24-cv-00218), Texas Bank and Trust (2:24-cv-00148), Texas Capital Bancshares (2:24-cv-00147), Truist Financial (2:24-cv-00146), Wintrust Financial (First United Bank) (1:24-cv-00219), and Zions Bancorporation (2:24-cv-00144) are the latest defendants to be added to the sole litigation campaign of InnoMemory, LLC, launched in July 2021 over patents received from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV). The two asserted patents are broadly directed to memory circuitry, with the defendants targeted over ATM machines—including those manufactured by Diebold Nixdorf and NCR—that incorporate DDR4 memory technology.
March 7, 2024
Plaintiff Tied to a Familiar Figure Targets Content and Software Update Tools in First Litigation
New Patent Litigation
Identifying an errant state of formation, Media Key LLC has filed its first litigation, suing Amazon (2:24-cv-00143) in the Eastern District of Texas; F5 (2:24-cv-00279) in the Western District of Washington; LG Electronics (LGE) (1:24-cv-00204) and Microsoft (1:24-cv-00201) in the Western District of Texas; and Open Text (Micro Focus) (4:24-cv-00716) in the Southern District of Texas. The sole asserted patent generally relates to updating or revising a user’s content through a “keying application”, with the defendants accused of infringement over the support of content and/or software update tools in their various products.
March 3, 2024
Webcon Vectors Fires Off First Campaign
New Patent Litigation
Webcon Vectors LLC has begun litigating a couple of (apparently) former CabanaWire patents, suing Cisco (6:24-cv-00089), Enghouse Systems (Lifesize) (6:24-cv-00092), and Microsoft (6:24-cv-00093) over the provision of certain videoconferencing features, such as meeting invitation and scheduling tools, within their respective communication platforms. This campaign appears to be the fourth of 2024 from the figure now sitting atop the list of frequent filers.
February 16, 2024
RecepTrexx Files Barrage of Suits Across Two Separate Campaigns
New Patent Litigation
RecepTrexx LLC has expanded two of its three litigation campaigns, adding suits against Bose (2:24-cv-00060), VIZIO (3:24-cv-00239), and Yamaha (2:24-cv-00061) to its first campaign and cases against 8x8 (1:24-cv-00120), AT&T (2:24-cv-00051), China Huaxin Post and Telecom Technologies (Alcatel Lucent Enterprises USA (d/b/a ALE USA) (1:24-cv-00135), Dialpad (1:24-cv-00136), Ericsson (2:24-cv-00053), GoTo Technologies USA (1:24-cv-10288) Madison Dearborn Partners (Intermedia.net) (1:24-cv-00140), Ooma (1:24-cv-00142), RingCentral (1:24-cv-00144), Ringover (1:24-cv-10271), Talkdesk (1:24-cv-00145), UnitedWeb (Nextiva) (1:24-cv-00143), Verizon (2:24-cv-00057), and Yeastar USA (1:24-cv-00146) to its third. The latter group is accused of infringing a single patent over communications platforms that support features for activating hold music for callers, although the cases against AT&T, Ericsson, and Verizon have already been dismissed (without prejudice). Bose, Vizio, and Yamaha, meanwhile, are accused of infringing a separate patent over devices (soundbars, TVs, and AV receivers, respectively) that support volume adjustment via voice commands issued to a virtual assistant (Amazon Alexa for Bose, Google Assistant for Yamaha, and both for Vizio).
February 4, 2024
A First 2024 Look at Notable Patent Assignments
Patent Market, Patent Watch
Recently recorded patent assignments made public by the USPTO contain noteworthy transfers to multiple plaintiffs now in litigation, including a new source of patents for Apex Beam Technologies LLC, a new source of patents for Pantech Corporation, and a familiar source of patent rights for Crystal Leap Zrt, this time assigning patents directly, though. Movement can also be seen from troubled patent monetization firm IP Edge LLC, as well as movement from various sources to patent broker Allied Security Trust. Take a look.
February 4, 2024
Box, DigiSigner, DocuFirst, and Dropbox Hit with “Paperless Mortgage Closings” Patent
New Patent Litigation
Delaware plaintiff Secure Ink LLC has filed its first litigation, suing Box (6:24-cv-00072) and Dropbox (6:24-cv-00074) in the Western District of Texas, DigiSigner (2:24-cv-00076) in the Eastern District of Texas, and DocuFirst (4:24-cv-00417) in the Southern District of Texas over a single patent generally related to an “electronic mortgage closing document processing system”. Secure Ink, which does not plead defensively against an Alice challenge in its complaints, targets the provision of “Web-based electronic signature document processing platform[s] that can be accessed via websites and mobile apps”.
February 3, 2024