With the addition of cases against Allstate (2:16-cv-00149) and ConocoPhillips (2:16-cv-00148), the number of defendants in the sole litigation campaign of Marshall Feature Recognition, LLC (MFR) has topped 40. The same two patents (6,886,750; 8,910,876) typically asserted in the other suits in this campaign are again asserted here. They generally relate to printed materials with machine readable features that can be used to access related digital information, and MFR accuses the defendants of infringement through the distribution of printed materials with QR (quick recognizable) codes on them.

Juniper Networks is the latest defendant to be added to the long-running, wide-ranging litigation campaign of Marshall Feature Recognition, LLC (MFR). As it has throughout the dozen cases that it has filed this year, MFR asserted two related patents (6,886,750; 8,910,876) from a family of over 35 against Juniper. The patents generally relate to printed materials with machine readable features that can be used to access related digital information. The campaign targets defendants’ use of QR (quick recognizable) codes in printed advertisements.

Marshall Feature Recognition, LLC has been running the same campaign since 2009, and it recently filed four additional suits, against Kao (2:14-cv-00021), Proctor and Gamble (2:14-cv-00023), Select Comfort (2:14-cv-00022), and Walgreen (2:14-cv-00024). The cases in the campaign assert a single patent (6,886,750) generally related to a printed ad with a machine recognizable feature that can then be used to access related electronic data. QR codes used in advertising have been the subject of previous litigation and that remains true in the new cases. The complaints allege that defendants use QR codes in printed advertisements and have associated digital content that is accessible by scanning the code.