The litigation campaign of Hyperquery LLC continues its expansion, this past week the plaintiff adding a District of Delaware case against Apple (1:25-cv-00334) to the separate Texas suits that it filed earlier this year against Access Technology Group, Asustor, Atlassian, ByteDance (Pico Immersive), Canva, D2L, Fiserv, GOG, JetBrains, Nemetschek Group, Overwolf, PDD Holdings, Pipedrive, Sage Group, and Sony. The plaintiff asserts a single patent generally related to initiating a download of an application in response to a user’s search query and input, targeting in the new complaint Apple’s Arcade video game subscription service.

New Mexico plaintiff ReadyComm LLC has filed its first litigation, suing AT&T (2:25-cv-00302), Mitel Networks (2:25-cv-00303), and NEC (2:25-cv-00304) in the Eastern District of Texas. The plaintiff asserts a single patent generally related to a “telephone communication system” that can switch between an “activated” and “stand-by” mode, with the defendants accused of infringement through the provision of their respective communications platforms. At issue are features related to allowing users to add multiple devices to receive or make phone calls, associate those devices with a user account, and choose whether a device will “ring” or “remain silent”.

Recently formed New Mexico plaintiff Televo LLC has filed its first litigation, suing OnePlus (2:25-cv-00257) in the Eastern District of Texas. The plaintiff asserts a single patent generally related to a “text entry system for an electronic device”, with OnePlus accused of infringement through the provision of the OnePlus Open smartphone. At issue is the use of the OxygenOS operating system, which supports Google’s Gboard virtual keyboard.

Bitdefender (1:25-cv-00249), Cloud Software Group (Citrix Systems) (1:25-cv-00250), and SAP (SAP America) (1:25-cv-00251) are the latest defendants to be added to the sole litigation campaign of Attestwave LLC, launched back in October 2022. In the new District of Delaware complaints, the plaintiff asserts a single patent generally related to “assuring proper execution of a software computer program” through tamper detection and validation. The defendants are accused of infringement over a wide array of products, ranging from mobile security solutions to unified endpoint management (UEM) solutions, that support device attestation tools for “verifying device and app integrity”.

New Mexico plaintiff Lattice Technologies LLC has expanded its sole litigation campaign with a case against Cox Enterprises (Cox Communications) (1:25-cv-00252) in the District of Delaware. The patent-in-suit generally relates to providing emergency alerts to designated contacts on a user device, with Cox accused of infringement through the provision of the Cox Homelife Security system and related smart home devices. At issue are features for contacting a user’s emergency contacts upon the triggering of emergency services.

Storage Vectors LLC has filed suit against ASUSTek (2:25-cv-00278), Kingston Technology (2:25-cv-00277), KIOXIA (2:25-cv-00276), Seagate Technology (2:25-cv-00275), Silicon Motion Technology (2:25-cv-00274), Sony (2:25-cv-00273), and Transcend Information (2:25-cv-00272), each in the Eastern District of Texas. The New Mexico plaintiff targets with a single patent—generally related to managing data on a “storage system”—the provision of a wide array of products, ranging from smartphones to solid state drives (SSDs), that support the Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 3.1 flash storage specification or 3D TLC NAND flash memory technology.

No substantive litigation occurred in the first round of suits filed by Media Key LLC, the cases against defendants Amazon, LG Electronics (LGE), and Microsoft each dismissed with prejudice; and those against F5 and Open Text (Micro Focus), both dismissed without prejudice. Now, Media Key has sued ASUSTek (2:25-cv-00259), Compagnie Financiere Richemont (Montblanc International) (2:25-cv-00266), Getac Holdings (2:25-cv-00261), HTC (2:25-cv-00262), Hytera Communications (2:25-cv-00263), Ledger (2:25-cv-00264), Mobvoi (2:25-cv-00265), Qisda (BenQ) (2:25-cv-00260), Radix Technologies (2:25-cv-00267), RugGear (2:25-cv-00268), Sonim Technologies (2:25-cv-00269), WinMate (2:25-cv-00270), and Zepp Health (2:25-cv-00271), each over the support of content and software update tools in their various products (e.g., device management solutions, smartphones, and smartwatches).

Modulus Systems LLC has expanded its two litigation campaigns, adding a suit against Stichting Ingka (IKEA North America Services) (2:25-cv-00222) in its first litigation campaign and Silicon Laboratories (7:25-cv-00080) in its second litigation campaign. Stichting Ingka is accused of infringing a single antenna assembly patent through the provision of the Dirigera Hub. Meanwhile, Silicon Laboratories is accused of infringing a single radio frequency module patent through the provision of the BGM113A256 Bluetooth low energy module.

Acer (2:25-cv-00175) and Coolpad Group (2:25-cv-00174) are the latest defendants to be added to the sole litigation campaign of TurboCode LLC, launched in April 2021 with suits against ASUSTek, Dell, HP, HP Enterprise (HPE), and Huawei (HiSilicon). In the new Eastern District of Texas complaints, the plaintiff asserts a single former ICOMM Technologies, Inc. patent generally related to processing “baseband digital signals”. The defendants are accused of infringement through the provision of devices (e.g., laptops, smartphones, and tablets) that are compliant with 3G and/or 4G/LTE standards “as disclosed in the 3rd Generation Partnership Project ('3GPP') Standard Specifications (releases 8-13) governing cellular wireless communications”.

The last active case in the litigation campaign of Comarco Wireless Systems LLC (CWS), filed against Lowe’s in April 2024, ended in a January dismissal with prejudice, after a settlement was noticed late last year. Now, CWS has filed suit against AT&T (2:25-cv-00173), targeting compliance with the Battery Charging (BC) 1.2 specification by a wide array of charging products, from car chargers to power banks. Since a trio of cases filed in 2022, this plaintiff has proceeded in serial fashion.