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IV Initiates Second New Litigation Campaign of 2023
New Patent Litigation
Intellectual Ventures LLC, through Intellectual Ventures I LLC and Intellectual Ventures II LLC, has filed suit against Comerica (2:23-cv-00524), JP Morgan Chase (2:23-cv-00523), and Liberty Mutual (Comparion Insurance Agency, Ironshore Holdings) (2:23-cv-00525) over the provision of various financial (Comerica and JPMorgan Chase) and insurance (Liberty Mutual) products and services. At issue is the use of Docker, Kafka, Kubernetes, and/or Spark. Six patents are asserted in the case against JP Morgan Chase, four of those in the other two complaints, each of which was filed in the Eastern District of Texas, where Chief Judge Rodney Gilstrap presides.
November 30, 2023
IV Hits Ubiquiti in Its Newest Campaign
New Patent Litigation
This past May, Intellectual Ventures I LLC (IV I) launched a new litigation campaign by suing Extreme Networks in the District of Delaware where little happened before the NPE filed a notice of voluntary dismissal on August 8. That same day IV I filed a second Delaware complaint over the same wireless communications patent, accusing Ubiquiti (1:23-cv-00865) of infringement through the provision of products that support IEEE 802.11ac SU Beamforming, including the Ubiquiti WiFi BaseStation XG Wave 2 Access Point.
August 19, 2023
Something Old, Something New, for IV
New Patent Litigation
Intellectual Ventures LLC has added a June case against Volvo (6:23-cv-00429) to one of the longest-running litigation campaigns, active since 2011. That new Western District of Texas complaint follows multiple April suits in the same campaign, filed separately (in that same district) against each of Lenovo (6:23-cv-00307), OnePlus (6:23-cv-00290), TCL (6:23-cv-00309), TP-Link (6:23-cv-00308), and Zebra Technologies (6:23-cv-00292) and a May case that comprises a brand new campaign, hitting Extreme Networks (1:23-cv-00489) in the District of Delaware. There, the suit is among several assigned to Western District of Pennsylvania Judge J. Nicholas Ranjan, sitting in Delaware by designation.
June 15, 2023
IV Campaign Sprawls over Four More Defendants
New Patent Litigation
Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV), as Intellectual Ventures I LLC (IV I) and Intellectual Ventures II LLC (IV II), has sued OnePlus (6:23-cv-00290), TCL (6:23-cv-00293), TP-Link (6:23-cv-00291), and Zebra Technologies (6:23-cv-00292) over the provision of a wide array of devices, ranging from access points to smartphones. The accused features include compliance with the IEEE 802.11ac/ax/n networking standards; the incorporation of Qualcomm processors and LPDDR4, LPDDR4X, and LPDDR5 memory; the incorporation of ARM Cortex-Axx processors; and support for multi-hop wireless networking. Each of the five asserted patents has appeared earlier in this campaign, which has been active since September 2011.
April 23, 2023
IV Case Against GM to Stay in the Western District of Texas
Patent Litigation Feature
The Federal Circuit has denied a petition for a writ of mandamus that had sought an order requiring Western District of Texas Judge Alan D. Albright to transfer a case filed by Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV) (as Intellectual Ventures I LLC (IV I) and Intellectual Ventures II LLC (IV II)) against GM to the Eastern District of Michigan. Judge Albright having found, among other things, “that there were GM employees in the Western District of Texas with relevant and material information” and that “the Western District could compel the testimony of potential third-party witnesses, including inventor testimony”, the appellate court ruled that the district court’s findings “provide a plausible basis for the conclusion that GM failed to demonstrate that litigating this case in the transferee forum would be clearly more convenient”. Judge Albright denied GM’s motion to transfer one day before holding a claim construction hearing in the suit, the court handing down the resulting Markman order about a month later but doing something in parallel that it has relatively seldom done: entering a memorandum that explains the reasoning for the court’s constructions.
January 27, 2023
IV Drops East Texas Case, Refiles in Second Choice Venue
New Patent Litigation
Last October, Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV) expanded one of the longest-running litigation campaigns on the books, having hit camera makers, wireless carriers, networking equipment manufacturers, and mobile device makers since 2011, to also include automakers. IV (as Intellectual Ventures I LLC and Intellectual Ventures II LLC) sued GM in the Western District of Texas, as well as Honda and Toyota in the Eastern District of Texas. Honda filed a motion to dismiss for improper venue, as well as a motion to stay matters until the Federal Circuit responded to petitions for a writs of mandamus filed by Hyundai and Volkswagen in response to a Western District of Texas order hinging venue there on the presence of in-district dealerships. In March, the Federal Circuit spoke, echoes of which continue to spread.
April 7, 2022
IV Opens Up Third West Texas Case Against HP Enterprise
New Patent Litigation
Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV), via plaintiff Intellectual Ventures II LLC (IV II), has filed another case against HP Enterprise (HPE) (6:21-cv-01298), again in the Western District of Texas—even though HPE has repeatedly moved (with some apparent success) for convenience transfers elsewhere. A single patent generally related to “hosting computing clusters” is asserted in the new complaint, with IV targeting certain HPE cloud computing services, together with related hardware and software. The new case is the third that IV filed against HPE in 2021.
December 27, 2021
IV Campaign Turns to Automakers
New Patent Litigation
Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV) plaintiffs Intellectual Ventures I LLC and Intellectual Ventures II LLC have sued GM (6:21-cv-01088) in the Western District of Texas, as well as Honda (2:21-cv-00390) and Toyota (2:21-cv-00389) in the Eastern District of Texas, in a campaign that has been active since 2011. These are the campaign’s first automaker defendants, with prior rounds hitting camera makers, wireless carriers, networking equipment manufacturers, and mobile device makers with overlapping subsets of patents-in-campaign that number six dozen.
October 29, 2021
IV Hits HP Enterprise in Long-Running Litigation Campaign
New Patent Litigation
Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV)—through Intellectual Ventures I LLC and Intellectual Ventures II LLC—has filed suit against HP Enterprise (HPE) (6:21-cv-00226) over the provision of various products related to enterprise data storage, virtualization, and wireless networking. The new case keeps alive litigation in a campaign that began in May 2013 but appeared to draw to a district court close in January 2021, after dismissals with prejudice ended separate suits against Arista Networks and Dell (VMWare). A Federal Circuit appeal remains active, filed by Dell (EMC), Lenovo, and NetApp following a grant of summary judgment of noninfringement in the District of Massachusetts.
March 12, 2021
IV Sues Arista Networks as Federal Judge Ends Earlier Case in the Campaign
New Patent Litigation
Roughly one week ago, District Judge Patti B. Saris in Massachusetts granted three motions for summary judgment of noninfringement, brought by Dell (EMC), Lenovo, and NetApp. The ruling ended the claims as to the lone remaining patent in a case brought by Intellectual Ventures LLC (through subsidiaries Intellectual Ventures I LLC and Intellectual Ventures II LLC) (IV) in May 2016. A July 2019 suit in the same campaign remains active against Dell’s VMWare, and IV has now added to the campaign’s sprawl by accusing Arista Networks (6:20-cv-00749) of infringing three patents new to the litigation. IV targets Arista’s provision of its Extensible Operating System (EOS) and Containerized Extensible Operating System (cEOS), as well as certain routers and switches.
August 22, 2020