Digital Cache, LLC has filed another round in its campaign over digital storage patents acquired from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV) in May 2020. The latest defendants are Acer (6:22-cv-00182), ASUSTek (6:22-cv-00183), Fujitsu (6:22-cv-00184), and HP (6:22-cv-00180), each sued in the Western District of Texas; and Lenovo (1:22-cv-00225), sued in the District of Delaware. Infringement allegations target the provision of computers with solid-state drives (SSDs) that support the TRIM command and garbage collection features, with Lenovo further alleged to infringe through the provision of desktops with hard disk drives (HDDs) that include air recirculation filters.

Recent months have seen yet more NPEs file litigation over patents received from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV), including Elite Gaming Tech LLC (d/b/a Elite Gaming Technology, LLC), which this past week fired off a dozen new suits asserting former IV patents. Meanwhile, USPTO records indicate that IV continues to assign patents to NPEs, including to at least one new entrant into the monetization business—and may be preparing for additional divestments in the near future.

Giga-Byte Technology (6:21-cv-00719), Hon Hai Precision Industry (Sharp) (6:21-cv-00733), and Micro-Star International (6:21-cv-00732) are the latest defendants to be added to the sole litigation campaign that Digital Cache, LLC launched in February 2021. The plaintiff asserts a single patent received from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV), generally related to “overwriting nonvolatile memory data”, with the defendants targeted over laptops with solid-state drives (SSDs)—manufactured by Kingston Technologies (Micro-Star), Samsung (Sharp), and Transcend Information (Giga-Byte)—that support the TRIM command and garbage collection features.

In June, Digital Cache, LLC added suits against ADATA Technology (6:21-cv-00584), NetApp (1:21-cv-00926), Panasonic (6:21-cv-00676), and Pure Storage (1:21-cv-00927) to the campaign that it began this past February. Asserted across this litigation are four data management patents, received in a portfolio of over 40 from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV) in May 2020, with each of the ten defendants accused of infringing one of the four, a patent broadly directed to overwriting nonvolatile memory data.

Digital Cache, LLC has kicked off its first litigation campaign with suits against Kingston Technology (6:21-cv-00163), Toshiba (6:21-cv-00161), and Transcend Information (6:21-cv-00164) in the Western District of Texas and Seagate Technology (1:21-cv-00536) in the District of Colorado. Four data management patents, received in a portfolio of over 40 from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV) in May 2020, are asserted in overlapping sets. The defendants are accused of infringement through the provision of storage devices, including hard disk drives (HDD) and solid state drives (SSDs).

Grus Tech LLC has launched its first litigation campaign, suing LG Electronics (LGE) (4:20-cv-00192) and Samsung (4:20-cv-00190) in the Eastern District of Texas on the same day that Vulpecula, LLC has hit those two defendants (4:20-cv-00191 and 4:20-cv-00189, respectively) in the same district. Each plaintiff asserts patent(s) naming Robert Paul Morris as the sole inventor, with infringement allegations targeting certain of the defendants’ smartphones. These plaintiffs—two of five Texas entities, formed under similar circumstances roughly one month ago, to initiate litigation this past week—are part of a constellation of entities litigating Morris patents.