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A First 2024 Look at Notable Patent Assignments
Patent Market, Patent Watch
Recently recorded patent assignments made public by the USPTO contain noteworthy transfers to multiple plaintiffs now in litigation, including a new source of patents for Apex Beam Technologies LLC, a new source of patents for Pantech Corporation, and a familiar source of patent rights for Crystal Leap Zrt, this time assigning patents directly, though. Movement can also be seen from troubled patent monetization firm IP Edge LLC, as well as movement from various sources to patent broker Allied Security Trust. Take a look.
February 4, 2024
September 2022 Caps Off a Busy Quarter for Patent Transactions—and NPE Litigation
Patent Market, Patent Watch
This past quarter, US patents continued to spread among NPEs, including to familiar faces in patent monetization, and while some of those recipients have yet to file any litigation, several did launch new campaigns during Q3, targeting players in the Networking market sector, wireless carriers, e-commerce or software companies, and device makers, among others.
October 14, 2022
Hypothetical License Negotiations Happen with the Entity Holding the Patents at the Time of First Infringement
Patent Litigation Feature
In late 2019, NPE Daedalus Group LLC acquired roughly 600 former operating company patents, moving about 500 of those assets to Daedalus Blue LLC in January 2020. Daedalus Blue immediately filed its first litigation over patents from its received portfolio, suing SZ DJI Technology (a Chinese corporation) and DJI Europe (a “European” corporation) in the Western District of Texas over drones sold in the US under the DJI brand. At that point, it looked like direct assertion might be Daedalus Blue’s primary plan, but outbound assignments throughout 2020-2021 have presented an alternate approach, cutting the NPE’s holdings in half—and a remarkable order from District Judge Alan D. Albright, just unsealed in Daedalus Blue’s drone case, suggests why directly litigating can get . . . dicey.
March 12, 2022
IP Edge Acquires More Former Operating Company Patents
Patent Market, Patent Watch
Earlier this month, RPX reported the launch of new campaigns by apparent IP Edge LLC plaintiffs Noblewood IP LLC, Pixeltide Pathway LLC, and Wikeshire IP LLC—each asserting a former IBM patent. Assignment records made public this week suggest that more such litigation could be coming.
February 12, 2022
Microsoft Tagged in Daedalus Blue Campaign
New Patent Litigation
Daedalus Blue LLC has sued Microsoft (6:20-cv-01152) over the provision of a variety of products (i.e., Microsoft SQL Server and Azure-series products) and features (i.e., database shipping, log shipping, etc.) allegedly related to “cloud infrastructure, cloud management, network security, database management, data processing, and data management”. The plaintiff asserts five patents, two new to the litigation and three previously in suit, against Oracle. That case was voluntarily dismissed with prejudice in July, but a third suit is active in the campaign in the Eastern District of Virginia.
December 16, 2020
Daedalus Blue Kicks Off Second Litigation Campaign with Suit Against Oracle
New Patent Litigation
Daedalus Blue LLC has sued Oracle (6:20-cv-00428) over the provision of various products related to enterprise access management, storage and backup, and virtualization. The NPE has asserted five patents from among the over 500 US assets that associated entity Daedalus Group LLC acquired from IBM late last year and passed along to Daedalus Blue in late January. This campaign is the third to arise from those divested IBM assets, the second litigated by Daedalus Blue.
May 30, 2020
New Slingshot Entity Picks Up Remaining Daedalus Group Patents, Acquired from IBM
Patent Market, Patent Watch
The bulk of a large tranche of patents that Daedalus Group LLC picked up from IBM last fall was assigned to Daedalus Blue LLC in late January. A day later, the remainder of those assets—many of them generally related to various aspects of self-driving vehicles—was transferred to Slingshot IOT LLC, a Maryland entity created one week earlier. Daedalus Blue has already begun litigating its portion of that portfolio; given its apparent origins, Slingshot IOT may not lag by much.
February 14, 2020
Daedalus Blue Hits Drones in First Litigation Arising from Notable Portfolio Transacted Last Fall
New Patent Litigation
The first litigation over a large portfolio of patents transferred last fall from IBM to Daedalus Group LLC has been filed in the Western District of Texas. Plaintiff Daedalus Blue LLC has accused DJI (6:20-cv-00073) of infringing three of those former IBM patents, allegedly received from Daedalus Group “on or about January 24, 2020”. DJI’s accused products are drones, with the asserted patents generally related to navigating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
February 2, 2020