Last month’s review of notable patent assignments considered the movement of assets from Avaya to Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC; from Level 3 Communications to Sandpiper CDN, LLC; from Seiko Epson to IPValue’s 138 East LCD Advancements Ltd. and Lumitek Display Technology Ltd.; from Transaction Security to a “BioCrypt Access”; from Fortress Investment Group LLC’s KIP Prod P1 LP to Prodea Automation LLC; from EMM Patents Ltd. to Empire IP LLC; from Siemens and Abdelsalam Helal to Rokiot USA LLC; and from Proxicom Wireless, LLC to Secure Communication Technologies, LLC. While a couple of these entities again feature prominently, this month’s review extends well beyond them to cover the movement of patents away from other operating companies, as well as within several repeat monetization players.

Qualserve Solutions LLC has filed its first litigation, suing LG Electronics (LGE) (1:23-cv-20253) in the Southern District of Florida and Samsung (1:23-cv-00550) in the Southern District of New York. The sole asserted patent, originating with Netherlands research organization Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek (TNO), generally relates to a system for picking the route to a destination based on quality-of-service (QoS) values derived from service level agreement (SLA) arrangements with network domain operators. The defendants are accused of infringement through the provision of smartphones that support certain LTE networking functionalities.