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After Winning on Standing and Defending Against Alice, Flexiworld Sues Sony
New Patent Litigation
Flexiworld Technologies, Inc. has added an Eastern District of Texas case against Sony (2:23-cv-00616) to the litigation campaign that it began back in June 2020. Nearly 40 wireless connectivity and streaming patents have now been asserted here, 15 of them in the new suit against Sony, with litigation still active against that first defendant, Amazon (in the Western District of Washington), as well as against Lexmark (in the Eastern District of Kentucky) and Xerox (in the Western District of New York). Flexiworld targets Sony over the provision of a wide array of products, including certain audio devices (i.e., speakers, headphones, and soundbars), gaming consoles, smartphones, and televisions.
January 3, 2024
Flexiworld Targets Wireless Printing in Latest Suits
New Patent Litigation
Flexiworld Technologies, Inc. has added four cases against Brother (2:22-cv-02236; 2:22-cv-02237; 2:22-cv-02250; 2:22-cv-02251) and two against Lexmark (5:22-cv-00097; 5:22-cv-00098) to the litigation campaign that it launched in June 2020 with a suit against Amazon. The asserted patents are broadly directed to wireless communications or wireless printing technologies, with these new defendants accused of infringement through the provision of wireless printers and related mobile apps.
April 20, 2022
Flexiworld Hits Roku a Third Time, Asks Judge Albright to Reconsider Transfer of Amazon Case
New Patent Litigation
Following its second suit against Roku last month, Flexiworld Technologies, Inc. has now filed another suit against the same defendant (6:21-cv-00767) in the Western District of Texas, adding another four media streaming/casting patents to litigation and bringing the total number of patents-in-suit to 13 between the two parties. Meanwhile, Amazon has won a convenience transfer of Flexiworld’s case against it to the Western District of Washington, leaving for the new court to decide its two motions challenging Flexiworld’s standing to sue in the first place, based on Flexiworld’s prior assignment agreement with Samsung.
August 10, 2021
Flexiworld Sues Roku a Second Time, Faces Expanded Challenge to Standing from Amazon
New Patent Litigation
Litigation in the media casting/streaming campaign of Flexiworld Technologies, Inc. continues to heat up before District Judge Alan D. Albright. The first defendant, Amazon, has filed a second motion challenging Flexiworld’s standing to sue, based on a prior assignment agreement with Samsung, and Flexiworld has hit Roku (6:21-cv-00680) with a second complaint in which six more patents are asserted against the defendant, bringing the total number of patents-in-suit between the two to nine. In early June, Judge Albright handed down a claim construction order in the campaign, ascribing to each of four disputed claim terms its plain and ordinary meaning.
July 9, 2021
As Amazon Argues That a Prior Assignment Justifies Partial Dismissal, Flexiworld Tags Canon
New Patent Litigation
Flexiworld Technologies, Inc. has added a case against Canon (6:21-cv-00143) to the litigation campaign that it began last year with a June suit against Amazon and a September suit against Roku, all in the Western District of Texas. The plaintiff asserts patents from a 70-member family in overlapping sets against the defendants, the patents at issue in the new Canon complaint generally related to short range wireless communications or wireless printing. The suit has been assigned to District Judge Alan D. Albright, who held a claim construction hearing in the Amazon case in late January and who has before him a motion to transfer that case to the Western District of Washington and a motion to dismiss claims related to several of Flexiworld’s patents in light of a prior assignment agreement with Samsung.
February 11, 2021
Flexiworld Follows Up June Case Against Amazon with New Suit Against Roku
New Patent Litigation
Inventor-controlled Flexiworld Technologies, Inc. has sued Roku (6:20-cv-00819) over three short-range wireless communications patents from the same 65-member family at issue in a June 2020 case, also filed in the Western District of Texas, that the plaintiff filed against Amazon. Amazon has answered the complaint filed against it, indicating to District Judge Alan D. Albright that it intends to filed motions challenging jurisdiction and requesting transfer. Flexiworld’s new complaint targets Roku’s provision of certain streaming media devices (the Express, Express+, Premiere, Streaming Stick, Streaming Stick+, and Ultra).
September 14, 2020
More Patents Naming the Founder of Flexiworld Technologies as an Inventor Appear in Litigation, This Time Asserted by Flexiworld Itself
New Patent Litigation
Flexiworld Technologies, Inc. has filed suit against Amazon (6:20-cv-00553), targeting the tech giant with ten short-range wireless communications patents and over the provision of certain Amazon Echo and Fire products, including streaming sticks, smart speakers, earbuds, and tablets. This case is not the first patent infringement lawsuit for the plaintiff, which sued Skype (later acquired by Microsoft) in 2007, and Flexiworld is not the only plaintiff to assert its patents in court—an attempt by IP Edge LLC’s Pebble Tide LLC to save two of those patents from Alice invalidation failed earlier this year.
June 23, 2020