An RPX review of public records indicates that the second quarter of 2023 saw at least eight new patent infringement campaigns launched with the backing of third-party litigation funding. Also in Q2, several already existing third-party financed campaigns grew larger, with the plaintiffs hitting new defendants and/or going after familiar targets for a second or even third time.

Inventor-controlled Fendgo LLC, with apparent backing by a litigation funder, has filed its first litigation with a suit against Samsung (2:23-cv-00221) in the Eastern District of Texas. The asserted patent, described in the complaint as “relating to the integration of safety features with mobile devices”, generally relates to a mobile device with a “panic button” for transmitting data in emergencies. Samsung is targeted over the provision of Galaxy-series smartphones that support the Samsung SOS tool, an emergency communications service for sharing “image data, audio data, location data and caller information” to emergency contacts.