Endeavor MeshTech, Inc., a subsidiary of publicly traded PAE Endeavor IP, Inc., has filed suit against Ericsson and its subsidiary BelAir Networks (1:16-cv-02165). Endeavor asserts the same three patents (7,399,981; 8,700,749; 8,855,019), generally related to a network of wirelessly connected meters, that it has asserted since it launched this campaign in July 2013. Since that time, Endeavor MeshTech has filed suit in various venues throughout the US against companies providing components used in energy grids or energy grids themselves, including Firetide, Itron, Leviton, and Tantalus Systems. The defendants’ smart grid technologies have been the accused products in this campaign.

Throughout November 2015, an inordinate number of cases were filed by NPEs apparently motivated to get to court before December 1 to avoid changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that took effect on that date. Among those filing November cases were several subsidiaries of publicly traded patent assertion entities (PAEs), including Collabo Innovations, Inc. (a subsidiary of Wi-Lan Inc.); Iron Gate Security, Inc. (a subsidiary of Vringo, Inc.), and Endeavor MeshTech, Inc. (a subsidiary of Endeavor IP, Inc.).