Trial is set to begin on June 10, 2024 in the Western District of Texas courtroom of Judge Alan D. Albright in a case that AlmondNet, Inc. filed, with its subsidiary Intent IQ, LLC, against Amazon (Amazon.com Services, Amazon Web Services) back in August 2021. In an April 2024 “Omnibus Order Regarding Pretrial Motions”, the court denied an Amazon motion challenging one asserted patent under Alice (because, per the court, its asserted claims are not directed to an abstract idea) and will now send to the jury the “issue as to conventionality” of the asserted claim of another patent. Meanwhile, in a new complaint filed in the same venue, AlmondNet and Intent IQ have accused Oracle (6:24-cv-00303) of infringing two other targeted advertisement patents. The accused products are Oracle’s BlueKai Data Management Platform, Oracle Data Cloud, Oracle ID Graph, and Oracle Marketing Cloud.

AlmondNet, Inc.—this time with its subsidiary Datonics, LLC as a coplaintiff—has filed a third suit against Amazon (Amazon.com Services, Amazon Web Services) (6:24-cv-00234) in the Western District of Texas. The plaintiff asserts two patents broadly directed to using profiles of “Internet-using entities” to distribute targeted electronic advertisements, with Amazon again accused of infringement through the provision of its advertisement platform and services. At issue are features related to data collection and targeted advertisements.

AlmondNet, Inc., this time without its two operating subsidiaries, has sued Verizon (Oath Holdings) (1:18-cv-00943) over a single targeted advertisement patent. The complaint accuses Oath Holdings, including Oath’s “BrightRoll and former Yahoo units”, of infringement through the provision of “demand side platforms, whether labeled Oath, Yahoo, Brightroll, or other”. In the crosshairs are the platforms’ various features related to online advertising, including those that build profiles on a given website’s users based on the users’ activity on that site, and those that allow third-party advertisers to bid for access to that data. The patent-in-suit belongs to a family already in suit in a March 2016 case brought by AlmondNet (with subsidiaries Datonics, LLC and Intent IQ, LLC) against Yahoo—before the acquisition of its Internet operations by Verizon—over 11 total patents.