Inventor-controlled DH International Ltd. has filed separate Western District of Texas cases against Alphabet (Google) (1:23-cv-01116) and Apple (1:23-cv-01114) over the respective provision of the Apple Pay and Google Pay mobile payment platforms, as well as related hardware. The two patents-in-suit are generally related to a “portable electronic device” that, upon detection of an external cue, will initiate a data exchange, and if not, will communicate information to a user instead. Both were asserted—by a different but associated plaintiff—against Samsung in an Eastern District of Texas suit that ran from October 2020 through August 2021.

Samsung Pay is the focus of a new complaint filed in the Eastern District of Texas (2:20-cv-00342). G. Holdings Ltd. accuses Samsung of infringing two patents (7,628,333; 9,022,294), generally related to automatically switching between “communication links” for data conveyance in a mobile device, through the provision of mobile devices that support Samsung Pay. The patents name Joel Gaillard as their sole inventor; Gaillard is described as the plaintiff’s “principal owner”.