Advanced Video Technologies LLC (AVT) has filed a new case against Samsung (1:16-cv-03967), asserting the same patent (5,781,788) at issue in this litigation campaign since it began over twelve years ago. The ‘788 patent generally relates to single-chip video compression and decompression, and the accused products include Samsung smartphones, digital cameras, and camcorders. AVT’s new case comes in the wake of district court orders granting past defendants BlackBerry, HTC, and Motorola Mobility both attorney fees, the award of which is on appeal before the Federal Circuit, and costs.

Advanced Video Technologies LLC (AVT) (a subsidiary of General Patent Corporation) has appealed District Court Judge Colleen McMahon’s award of attorney fees to HTC (1:11-cv-06604), BlackBerry (1:11-cv-08908), and Motorola (1:12-cv-00918). Judge McMahon granted fees to the defendants in August 2015 after ruling that AVT’s mishandling of a patent title dispute warranted a finding that the three cases were “exceptional” under Octane. Her December 14 sanctions award order reaffirmed that decision and specified the amounts to be paid, setting HTC’s fee award at over $502K and directing BlackBerry and Motorola to submit reduced calculations to factor in duplicative work. On January 19, after further communications with counsel, the judge awarded $84K to Blackberry and $81K to Motorola in two separate orders. AVT filed separate notices of appeal in each proceeding: on January 11 for its case against HTC (16-1476), and on January 21 for BlackBerry (16-1514) and Motorola (16-1515). The NPE had originally filed suit against HTC in late 2011 and Blackberry and Motorola in 2012.

Lenovo, LGE, and Nikon are the newest defendants in Advanced Video Technologies LLC’s (AVT’s) long-running litigation campaign. The entity filed nine suits between 2004 and 2012, and then began filing new litigation in June of this year. The recent suits assert the same patent seen in previous cases in the campaign, and it relates to a semiconductor chip with MPEG video compression and decompression (5,781,788). Mobile devices made and sold by defendants are accused of infringing the patent-in-suit.

General Patent Corporation’s Advanced Video Technologies LLC (AVT) filed its first suits since 2012, naming BlackBerry, HTC, and Motorola Mobility as defendants. The new suits are part of AVT’s sole litigation campaign, begun in 2004. AVT has previously sued these three defendants in this same campaign. The entity asserts a single patent concerning a semiconductor chip that provides MPEG video compression and decompression (5,781,788). Mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets, are the accused products in the suits.