Dell (6:22-cv-00642) is the latest defendant to be added to the sole litigation campaign of Harfang IP Investment Corp plaintiff Ozmo Licensing LLC (f/k/a Sonic Wave LLC), launched in April 2021. The defendant is accused of infringing six wireless networking patents, one of which is newly asserted in litigation, through the provision of devices (i.e., computers, laptops, monitors, and tablets) that are compliant with the Wi-Fi Direct protocol.

Since Ozmo Licensing LLC filed its first lawsuit this past April—asserting four patents from a networking family against HP—a new member has issued. The Harfang IP Investment Corp plaintiff has now asserted that new member, together with the previous four, in a complaint filed against Acer (6:21-cv-01225), also in the Western District of Texas. The past six months of the HP suit have focused on motions to dismiss certain indirect infringement claims, with District Judge Alan D. Albright yet to rule.

In its new complaint against HP (6:21-cv-00383), Ozmo Licensing LLC targets with two patents the provision of Wi-Fi enabled products—specifically, “numerous wireless devices, including laptop computers, desktop computers, printers and monitors”, which the plaintiff pleads that “Wi-Fi protocols allow . . . to act as a hub to receive, for example, images from an IEEE 802.11 access point and to forward such images to a second device using Wi-Fi Direct”. The complaint is the first filed by the plaintiff, which is associated with monetization firm Harfang IP Investment Corp. Ozmo Licensing indicates that it “is working to widely and reasonably license its current patent portfolio” and to “concomitantly pursu[e] related patent applications”, both “with the support of” the asserted patents’ named inventors.

On January 28, Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV) and Ozmo Licensing LLC—a Texas entity associated with Chris Dubuc’s new monetization firm Harfang IP Investment Corp (d/b/a Harfang IP)—announced an agreement under which Ozmo will license IV patents to “select companies in the Wi-Fi Direct space”. The announcement follows Dubuc’s departure from Longhorn IP LLC and a late 2019 assignment from IV to Ozmo, which was recently reported by RPX.

Nordic Interactive Technologies LLC, an entity associated with monetization firm Longhorn IP LLC, has filed its first litigation, accusing Samsung (6:20-cv-00064) of infringing two patents that the plaintiff acquired from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV) last May. Nordic targets the provision of Samsung devices supporting certain features of Bluetooth 2.1 (or later) with one of the patents, generally related to nearby device detection and the inclusion of various standard telephony features in certain Samsung smartphones with the other, broadly concerning telephone number processing.

Public records suggest that litigation may be coming from Ozmo Licensing LLC (f/k/a Sonic Wave LLC), a Texas entity identified as a “current investment” on the website of Harfang IP Investment Corp. As recently reported by RPX, Longhorn IP LLC’s cofounder, Christian (“Chris”) Dubuc, is leaving that firm three years after its formation and has changed the name of an existing Texas entity under his control to Harfang IP. Meanwhile, newly released assignment records reveal that in November 2019, Ozmo Licensing expanded its patent holdings with additional pickups from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV).