So far in July, DigiMedia Tech, LLC—an entity associated with IP Investments Group LLC (d/b/a IPinvestments Group)—has expanded its litigation campaign over patents received from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV) with suits against Hyundai (Kia) (2:24-cv-00510) and Mercedes Benz (2:24-cv-00531) in the Eastern District of Texas. The defendants are accused of infringement through the provision of automobiles that incorporate surround-view camera systems and virtual assistants.

Expedia Group (HomeAway) (1:24-cv-00767) and Honda (2:24-cv-00461) are the latest defendants to be added to the sole litigation campaign of DigiMedia Tech, LLC—an entity associated with IP Investments Group LLC (d/b/a IPinvestments Group)—which has sued over 25 defendants since May 2020. The plaintiff asserts two former Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV) patents against Honda, accused of infringement in an Eastern District of Texas complaint through the provision of Acura automobiles that incorporate surround-view camera systems; and four more IV patents against HomeAway, alleged in a Delaware complaint to infringe through functionality related to adding and deleting photos from a VRBO vacation rental listing using a mobile device.

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.

DigiMedia Tech, LLC, a plaintiff associated with Georgia monetization firm IP Investments Group LLC (d/b/a IPinvestments Group), has filed separate suits against OnePlus (2:23-cv-00104) and Xiaomi (2:23-cv-00110) in the Eastern District of Texas, targeting the provision of smartphones that support features such as media compression and encoding, as well as camera head tracking. The defendants are accused of infringing three former Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV) patents, one with more than half of its claims canceled in a May 2022 inter partes review (IPR) and another awaiting a final written decision in separate IPR proceeding.

DigiMedia Tech, LLC, a plaintiff associated with Georgia monetization firm IP Investments Group LLC (d/b/a IPinvestments Group), has extended its file-and-dismiss litigation over patents received from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV), suing Ricoh (Ricoh Imaging Americas) (1:23-cv-00082) over the provision of various camera products. Ricoh is accused of infringing four of the 16 patents already asserted in this campaign, including one that lost more than half of its claims to an inter partes review (IPR) in May 2022. From May to September 2020, DigiMedia included that patent among those asserted against Fujifilm, Olympus, Sakar, Nikon, JK Imaging, and Elite Brands (in that order), highlighting claims 21-23 in its various complaints. In a November 2020 petition, Unified Patents challenged those claims, as well as 14 others, leading to their May 2022 cancellation. However, beginning with a December 2020 complaint (against Panasonic) through to this new complaint against Ricoh, DigiMedia has continued to assert the patent, highlighting a different claim—one unchallenged via IPR—instead.

CommWorks Solutions, LLC, an IPInvestments Group LLC (d/b/a IPinvestments Group) plaintiff, has opened up a second litigation campaign by suing a defendant from the first, Comcast (2:21-cv-00459), this time in the Eastern District of Texas. Meanwhile, a second IPinvestments Group plaintiff, DigiMedia Tech, LLC, has also sued Comcast (6:21-cv-01341), back in the Western District of Texas though. Combined, the two suits assert an additional five patents against Comcast, two by CommWorks Solutions, three by DigiMedia Tech, all received from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV).

Altice, together with its subsidiary CSC Holdings, has filed three complaints in the District of Delaware, one each against CommWorks Solutions, LLC (1:21-cv-01323); DataCloud Technologies, LLC (1:21-cv-01321); and DigiMedia Tech, LLC (1:21-cv-01322), all associated with Georgia patent monetization firm IPInvestments Group LLC (d/b/a IPinvestments Group). The complaints seek declaratory judgments of noninfringement and invalidity of various patents that the named NPEs acquired from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV) and have apparently asserted via letters sent over the course of the last 18 months. The NPEs are among several to have launched litigation from thousands of US assets flowing out of IV over the past couple of years.

DigiMedia Tech, LLC, an NPE associated with Georgia monetization firm IPInvestments Group LLC (d/b/a IPinvestments Group), has filed suit against ViacomCBS (Showtime Networks) (1:21-cv-01831) in the Southern District of New York. The NPE asserts five patents—each received from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV)—three of which are new to litigation; the accused products include Blu-Ray discs and the Showtime Anywhere streaming service, with the use of the AVC video codec in both products and certain preview and content-linking features in the Showtime Anywhere service at issue.

Sued in the District of Delaware last week, Lenovo (Motorola Mobility) (1:21-cv-00227) has become the latest defendant added to DigiMedia Tech, LLC’s campaign litigating a trove of patents acquired from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV) in November 2019. DigiMedia has been targeting digital cameras and video compression, the NPE again asserting three patents already in suit against Lenovo for its provision of the Moto G7 Power smartphone and VOIP 360 Camera Speaker. A fourth patent, however, is asserted in this latest complaint that departs from that focus: generally related to “automatic information exchange”, that patent is aimed at the Lenovo Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform.

DigiMedia Tech, LLC, an NPE associated with Georgia monetization firm IPInvestments Group LLC (d/b/a IPinvestments Group), has added a case against Panasonic (1:20-cv-04995) to the digital camera campaign that it began in May of this year with separate suits against Fujifilm and Olympus. Cases over three of the patents asserted patents—one generally related to digital camera focusing mechanisms and the other two generally related to tracking the head of a person in a video—against JK Imaging, Nikon, and Sakar (filed in June) and against Elite Brands (filed in September) followed. Only two of those prior six suits remain active. In its new complaint, DigiMedia asserts five additional patents for the first time.