Intel (MobilEye, MobilEye Vision Technologies) (0:24-cv-04149) has filed a declaratory judgment action against Facet Technology Corp. in the District of Minnesota. It concerns the same two patents that Facet asserted against MobilEye Global in an Eastern District of Texas case filed this past January. There, in early September, District Judge Robert W. Schroeder III allowed Facet Technology 60 days of venue-related discovery, with leave to amend thereafter, given the defendant’s successful motion to dismiss the original complaint “as lacking a plausible venue allegation”. Elsewhere, Facet Technology’s standing to sue has been challenged.

Facet Technology Corp. has expanded its sole litigation campaign with a suit against Nokia (HERE Global) (2:24-cv-00269) in the Eastern District of Texas, as well as a sealed complaint against TomTom (1:24-cv-00111) in the District of New Hampshire. Against HERE Global, the plaintiff asserts two patents generally related to an “automated system” for classifying a sensed “reflective surface” as a road marker; the defendant is accused of infringement through the provision of its “HD Mapping system”, which allegedly incorporates “travel path features determined from LiDAR cloud map technology”.

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.

Inventor-controlled plaintiff Facet Technology Corp. has filed its first litigation with a pair of suits, one against each of General Motors (2:24-cv-00035) and Intel (MobilEye Global) (2:24-cv-00058), both in the Eastern District of Texas. The plaintiff asserts two patents generally related to an “automated system” for classifying a sensed “reflective surface” as a road marker. GM is targeted over the provision of driving assistance products—including GM’s Lane Departure Warning and Lane Keep Assist—that incorporate the MobileEyeQ3 and EyeQ4 systems-on-chip (SoCs), while MobilEye is accused over the SoCs themselves.