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.

Stragent LLC has revived a litigation campaign that has lain dormant for over two years, filing three nearly identical complaints against automakers BMW (6:16-cv-00446), Daimler (6:16-cv-00447), and Geely (Volvo) (6:16-cv-00448). The two asserted patents (8,209,705; 8,566,843) issued in 2012 and 2013 as continuations of an earlier patent (7,802,263) that Stragent asserted in litigation between February 2011 to November 2013 against suppliers of microcontrollers and/or related software to auto manufacturers. The patents generally relate to communicating information (e.g. software updates) across networks of different type. Stragent’s infringement allegations focus on the defendants’ purported migration to AUTOSAR (AUTomotive Open System ARchitecture), a standardized system of interfaces between automotive network technologies.