Inventor-controlled Implicit, LLC has initiated its third litigation campaign asserting patents with Edward Balassanian identified as a named inventor, here two patents (7,391,791; 8,942,252) not previously seen in litigation. The patents generally relate to synchronizing content between multiple devices (“master” and “slave” devices) on a network, and Implicit has accused D&M Holdings (Denon Electronics) (1:17-cv-00258) and Sonos (1:17-cv-00259) of infringement through the manufacture and sale of their in-home audio systems (HEOS and Sonos systems, respectively).

Near the beginning of 2016, inventor Edward Balassanian revived one of his two prior litigation campaigns by asserting five patents against Ericsson, Huawei, NEC, Nokia, and Trend Micro in complaints filed by an entity under his control, Implicit, LLC. The plaintiff in the earlier campaign, Implicit Networks, Inc., was also controlled by Balassanian. Now, Balassanian has repeated the exercise, reviving through Implicit, LLC the second campaign litigated through Implicit Networks back in 2009-2010. Implicit has filed suit against Huawei again (6:16-cv-01358), this time asserting two patents (6,507,349; 8,046,687) generally related to manipulating the display of information without using “separate controls”. Balassanian accuses Huawei of infringement through touchscreen options (e.g. volume control for videos) available on tablets and smartphones made and sold with the company’s Emotion user interface (versions 1.0-5.0).

A year after a district judge invalidated two Implicit Networks, Inc. patents in litigation against F5 Networks, Implicit, LLC sued F5 Networks (5:14-cv-02856) for alleged infringement of a third related patent (8,694,683). The patent-in-suit relates to processing data flows and was invented by Edward Balassanian, who controls both Implicit entities. The complaint accuses F5’s BIG-IP application delivery tools that run on the company’s Traffic Management Operating System, as well as technical support services for all of those products.

Implicit Networks, Inc. has filed a new suit against HP (3:12-cv-00685), alleging that HP’s Apache-based web servers infringe a patent related to delivering applets to client computers. Although this litigation is the first involving the newly issued patent-in-suit (8,056,075), the ‘075 patent is part of a family of related patents (7,774,740; 6,976,248; 6,324,685, the “Application Server Patents”) that have been asserted by Implicit Networks in four prior suits against multiple high tech defendants, including Adobe, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Red Hat, and SAP.