Media Key LLC has followed up its early-March cases against ASUSTek, Compagnie Financiere Richemont (Montblanc International), Getac Holdings, HTC, Hytera Communications, Ledger, Mobvoi, Qisda (BenQ), Radix Technologies, RugGear, Sonim Technologies, WinMate, and Zepp Health with a suit against Radius Networks (1:25-cv-00603) in the District of Delaware. The same single patent—generally related to updating or revising a user’s content through a “keying application”—is asserted, here targeting the provision of the Flybuy Dashboard 15” Tablet. At issue are features for automatically downloading and installing mobile app updates through the Google Play Store.

New Mexico plaintiff Cascade Systems LLC has filed suit against Elliott Capital Group (Barnes & Noble) (2:25-cv-00510), Learnfly Edtech Private (2:25-cv-00511), OKX (2:25-cv-00512), and PA Media Group (Alamy) (2:25-cv-00509) in the Eastern District of Texas, as well as against Canva (7:25-cv-00217) in the Western District of Texas. With a single patent generally related to peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing systems, the plaintiff targets the provision of a wide array of products, including eBook sharing, online course, professional design, and stock image platforms/services. At issue are features for allowing customers to license or purchase media content (through direct purchase or subscription plans), which is then transferred via a content delivery network (CDN).

Calibrate Networks LLC has launched its first litigation by suing BlackBerry (2:25-cv-00435) and IBM (2:25-cv-00434) in the Eastern District of Texas as well as Airbnb (7:25-cv-00197), Box (7:25-cv-00196), Shopify (7:25-cv-00192), and SolarWinds (7:25-cv-00191) in the Western District of Texas. The New Mexico plaintiff targets IBM and SolarWinds over the quality of service (QoS) features of their respective SevOne Network Performance Monitoring Tool and NetFlow Traffic Analyzer service; the other defendants, over their use of Kubernetes for managing application containers for various products.

Hyperquery LLC has filed separate Eastern District of Texas complaints against Arashi Vision (d/b/a Insta360) (2:25-cv-00406, 2:25-cv-00413), Chaos Software (2:25-cv-00407, 2:25-cv-00415), Hikvision (Hikvision USA) (2:25-cv-00408), HTC (2:25-cv-00409), Huya (2:25-cv-00410), QNAP Systems (2:25-cv-00411), Synology (2:25-cv-00416), Ugreen (2:25-cv-00417), and Xero (2:25-cv-00418), as well as separate Western District of Texas complaints against Ansys (7:25-cv-00174), BigCommerce (7:25-cv-00175), Electronic Arts (7:25-cv-00176), Planview (7:25-cv-00177), and Siemens (7:25-cv-00178), all over the provision of the defendants’ respective digital marketplaces (e.g., app stores, software stores, and websites). At issue are features for allowing users to search for and download mobile apps and/or software products.

So far in April, Comarco Wireless Systems LLC (CWS) has expanded its sole litigation campaign with suits against HP (2:25-cv-00420), Panasonic (2:25-cv-00425), and Staples (2:25-cv-00421), each in the Eastern District of Texas. The three patents-in-suit are broadly directed to a system for supplying power to a portable electronic device. The defendants are accused of infringement over the provision of various products, ranging from laptops to wall chargers, that are compliant with the Battery Charging (BC) 1.2 specification and/or Universal Serial Bus Power Delivery Specification (Revision 2.0).

In a new Western District of Texas complaint, New Mexico plaintiff Tesseract Systems LLC has initiated what appears to be its first litigation, accusing The Mitre (7:25-cv-00166) of infringing a single patent broadly directed to “facilitating training in a computer-based neural network”. Targeted is the provision of the Topic Modeling Neural Toolkit (TMNT) solution, which is alleged to use the Apache MXNet deep learning framework.

OrderMagic LLC has filed eight complaints in the Eastern District of Texas—one against each of Cafe and Bakery Group (2:25-cv-00365), Chipotle (2:25-cv-00368), CPK Holdings (California Pizza Kitchen) (2:25-cv-00366), Deli Management (d/b/a Jason’s Deli) (2:25-cv-00369), Mavericks (d/b/a Inspire Brands) (2:25-cv-00370), Mr. YUM Holdings Proprietary (2:25-cv-00371), The Property Group (Chick-Fil-A) (2:25-cv-00367), and Raising Cane’s (2:25-cv-00372)—and two in the Western District of Texas—one against each of BBQ Holdings (7:25-cv-00158) and Thrive Restaurant Group (7:25-cv-00160). Targeted is the provision of the restaurant defendants’ respective mobile apps and/or websites for mobile ordering.

Wireless earbuds are the focus of a new litigation campaign, filed by Helical LLC against ASUSTek (2:25-cv-00353), Creative Technology (2:25-cv-00354), Little Bird (2:25-cv-00355), Loyal Deluxe Development (Meizhou Guo Wei Electronics) (2:25-cv-00357), Marshall Group (2:25-cv-00356), OnePlus (2:25-cv-00360), Panasonic (2:25-cv-00361), Samsung (2:25-cv-00362), and Yamaha (2:25-cv-00363). A single patent generally related to an “audio content delivery device” with a “main in-the-ear body portion” is asserted in each complaint, all filed in the Eastern District of Texas.

CommPlex Systems LLC has followed up its Eastern District of Texas complaint against Acer with a barrage of cases, one filed against each of CommScope (2:25-cv-00342), D-Link (2:25-cv-00343), Hitron Technologies (2:25-cv-00344), Micro-Star International (2:25-cv-00345), Muratec (Silex Technology) (2:25-cv-00346), Synology (2:25-cv-00347), Verizon (Verizon Wireless) (2:25-cv-00348), and Zyxel Group (Zyxel Communications) (2:25-cv-00349). Asserted in each complaint, all also filed in the Eastern District of Texas, is a single patent generally related to “a system and method for transmitting and receiving digital signals using frequency shift keying (FSK), frequency modulation (FM) and using multiple binary orthogonal frequencies”. The accused products are networking devices (e.g., access points and routers) that support certain Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) techniques compliant with the IEEE 802.11ax standard.

CommPlex Systems LLC has filed an Eastern District of Texas case against Acer (2:25-cv-00336), targeting the provision of its Predator Connect W6 Wi-Fi 6E Router. The New Mexico plaintiff asserts a single patent that issued to sole named inventor Abdullah A. Al-Eidan in January 2011. A transfer away from Al-Eidan has yet to appear in publicly available USPTO assignment records, but in the boilerplate Rabicoff Law LLC complaint, CommPlex pleads ownership of “all right, title[,] and interest”.