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Lenovo and ZTE Snagged in ServStor’s Third Round
New Patent Litigation
ServStor Technologies, LLC, an IPInvestments Group LLC (d/b/a IPinvestments Group) plaintiff, has filed a third round of litigation in its sole campaign, accusing Lenovo (2:24-cv-00204) and ZTE (2:24-cv-00205) of infringing a familiar set of five former Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV) patents in separate Eastern District of Texas complaints. The defendants are accused of infringement through the provision of certain computer servers and racks, as well as related hardware and software products.
March 23, 2024
Relatively Routine Extension Request Denied
New Patent Litigation
After adding separate cases against Allied Telesis and Samsara to its campaign over file management and/or network communications patents sourced from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV), plaintiff DataCloud Technologies, LLC has sued HP (1:24-cv-00067) and Western Digital (1:24-cv-00156), both in the District of Delaware. Extensions of the deadline to respond to a new complaint are often routinely granted, to facilitate investigation of the allegations and resolution of the dispute in the earliest stages, but a relatively unusual denial was entered in one of DataCloud’s recent cases.
February 7, 2024
CDN Innovations and Sercomm File Dueling Complaints
New Patent Litigation
This past December, CDN Innovations, LLC filed a Western District of Texas complaint against Sercomm (6:23-cv-00873), targeting the provision of networking products (e.g., gateways, modems, and routers) that implement port triggering with two patents generally related to detecting computer port inactivity. Early this year, Sercomm USA, a California-based subsidiary of the Taiwanese parent, filed a Northern District of California complaint against CDN Innovations (4:24-cv-00174). There, Sercomm USA seeks declaratory judgments of license, estoppel, and/or exhaustion for both patents, contending that CDN gave licenses and/or certain covenants to, or otherwise resolved claims against, Broadcom and MediaTek, asserting that because the accused products incorporate certain integrated circuits (ICs) and software from “Broadcom and/or MediaTek”, CDN is “barred, exhausted, and/or estopped” from alleging infringement.
January 16, 2024
Number of Defendants in DataCloud Campaign Tops 30
New Patent Litigation
Last month, DataCloud Technologies, LLC, an IP Investments Group LLC plaintiff, added cases against first Samsara (1:23-cv-05514), in the Northern District of Georgia, and then Allied Telesis (1:23-cv-01451), in the District of Delaware, to the litigation campaign begun back in June 2020. The patents-in-suit, sourced from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV), generally relate to either file management or network communications. In connection with the Samsara case, filed in a district that requires heightened disclosure, DataCloud discloses another Georgia LLC tied to IPinvestments Group as owning ten percent or more of its stock but certifies that it knows of no “other persons, associations, firms, partnerships, or corporations” that have a financial or other interest that “could be substantially affected by the outcome of this particular case”.
January 11, 2024
New Complaints Filed in Both CommWorks Campaigns
New Patent Litigation
CommWorks Solutions, LLC has sued Extreme Networks (6:23-cv-00835) in a Western District of Texas complaint targeting the provision of a wide variety of networking products (e.g., access points, gateways, routers, and software). The new case follows by two weeks separate Eastern District of Texas complaints filed in the other CommWorks campaign, one against each of Open Text (2:23-cv-00533) and Sangoma Technologies (2:23-cv-00534). The accused products there are the RightFax and PBXact Cloud email systems, respectively.
December 13, 2023
CDN Innovations Hits Linksys over Port Triggering Networking Products
New Patent Litigation
So far in November, CDN Innovations, LLC, an entity associated with monetization firm IPInvestments Group LLC (d/b/a IPinvestments Group), has added Hon Hai Precision Industry (Linksys USA) (1:23-cv-01342) as a defendant to its sole litigation campaign, launched in May 2020. The two patents-in-suit, received from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV), generally relate to detecting computer port inactivity. Linksys USA is accused of infringement through the provision of networking products (i.e., modems and routers) that implement port triggering.
December 3, 2023
DigiMedia Files Two More Complaints, Defends Default Against Xiaomi
New Patent Litigation
DigiMedia Tech, LLC, an IP Investments Group LLC (d/b/a IPinvestments Group) plaintiff, has added an Eastern District of Texas case against Best Buy (2:23-cv-00530) and a Western District of Texas case against Roku (6:23-cv-00776) to its sole litigation campaign. Two patents from DigiMedia’s portfolio of former Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV) patents are asserted against both defendants, with an additional two such patents in suit against Best Buy and one other against Roku; since its May 2020 onset, this litigation has seen more than two dozen former IV patents asserted.
November 22, 2023
DataCloud Tags Sophos in File Management and Network Communications Campaign
New Patent Litigation
DataCloud Technologies, LLC, a plaintiff associated with Georgia monetization firm IP Investments Group LLC (d/b/a IPinvestments Group), has sued Sophos (2:23-cv-00508) in the Eastern District of Texas over a wide array of products, ranging from its Android mobile app to the Sophos Central platform. The plaintiff asserts five patents, each received from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV), broadly directed to file management or network communications. Since launching its sole litigation campaign in June 2020, the NPE has sued nearly 30 defendants, including 8X8, Arista Networks, Box, Charter Communications, Extreme Networks, F5 Networks, Squarespace, and Trend Micro.
November 10, 2023
CommWorks Taps CommScope and Hon Hai Precision Industry in New Complaints
New Patent Litigation
So far in November, CommWorks Solutions, LLC, a plaintiff associated with IP Investments Group LLC, has sued CommScope (ARRIS) (2:23-cv-00510) in the Eastern District of Texas and Hon Hai Precision Industry (Belkin, Linksys) (2:23-cv-09229) in the Central District of California over a wide array of networking products (e.g., access points, gateways, and routers). The seven patents-in-suit, asserted in overlapping sets, are broadly directed to wireless communications; they are among 16—each received from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV)—that have been litigated by the plaintiff against over 20 defendants to date.
November 3, 2023
Staples Added to Advanced Transactions E-Commerce Campaign
New Patent Litigation
Advanced Transactions, LLC, an entity associated with Georgia monetization firm IPInvestments Group LLC (d/b/a IPinvestments Group), has revived its first litigation campaign with a suit against Staples (6:23-cv-00718) in the Western District of Texas. The plaintiff asserts eight patents broadly directed to various aspects of e-commerce technologies, with Staples accused of infringement through the provision of a wide array of products and services, including marketing email systems, mobile apps, gift and reward cards programs, e-commerce websites, and in-store/online ordering services. Its last active suit, a declaratory judgment action filed by American Airlines, was dismissed early last month.
October 27, 2023