Vantage Point Technology (VPT), a subsidiary of Marathon Patent Group, sued Amazon, Apple, Box, Dropbox, Google, and SugarSync for alleged infringement of a networking patent. In six separate complaints, VPT accuses defendants’ cloud storage and back-up products of infringing a patent related to transmitting documents between a server and a computer (6,615,233). The patent-in-suit originated with an operating company, Intergraph Corporation, which assigned the patent to VPT in September 2013. It does not appear that the patent has been previously litigated.

Vantage Point Technology’s second round of filings is only 5 cases, against Apple, LSI, MediaTek, Panasonic, and Sharp, much smaller than the 22 litigations filed in the original group of suits less than a month ago.  A subsidiary of Marathon Patent Group, Vantage Point’s cases are all part of a single campaign involving a patent that relates to translating virtual addresses in a computing system (5,463,750). The complaints, including those in the new filings, allege that defendants’ smartphones and tablets incorporate chipsets that infringe the asserted patent. Vantage Point acquired the patent-in-suit from Intergraph in September 2013 as part of a deal that the entity announced in October of this year. The litigated patent has a priority date of November 3, 1993 and there are no USPTO filings to indicate changes to the expected expiration date. However, the new complaints do not mention the patent’s expected expiry. 11/21, Eastern District of Texas, 2:13cv00989, 2:13cv00990, 2:13cv00991, 2:13cv00992, 2:13cv00993

Vantage Point Technology, a subsidiary of Marathon Patent Group, filed its first lawsuits this week, just over a month after it acquired a portfolio of patents from Hexagon-subsidiary Intergraph. The 22 suits are part of a single campaign and defendants include ASUS, Acer, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Broadcom, Freescale, HTC, Huawei, Kyocera, LG, Lenovo, Microsoft, NEC, NVidia, Pantech, Qualcomm, Renesas, Samsung, Texas Instruments, and ViewSonic. Each case asserts a single patent that relates to translating virtual addresses in a computing system (5,463,750) and accuses defendants’ mobile devices of infringing the patent-in-suit. Vantage Point acquired the asserted patent from Intergraph, likely as part of the deal reported in October 2013, although it has not been recorded with the USPTO. The patent-in-suit has a priority date of November 2, 1993 and does not appear to have any extensions that would change its expected expiration date of November 2, 2013. RPX saw the asserted patent as part of two separate open market opportunities, one offered in May 2012 and the second in July 2013. In both cases the patent was offered as part of a larger portfolio. This campaign is one of three started this year by Marathon Patent subsidiaries. The other two involve Relay IP and Sampo IP. 11/1, Eastern District of Texas, 2:13cv00908, 2:13cv00909, 2:13cv00910, 2:13cv00911, 2:13cv00912, 2:13cv00913, 2:13cv00914, 2:13cv00915, 2:13cv00916, 2:13cv00917, 2:13cv00918, 2:13cv00920, 2:13cv00921, 2:13cv00923, 2:13cv00924, 2:13cv00925, 2:13cv00926, 2:13cv00927, 2:13cv00928, 2:13cv00929, 2:13cv00930, 2:13cv00931