Evidence of IP Edge LLC’s frequent practice of naming individuals—seemingly with no discernible connections to patent monetization—as managers or managing members of its various LLCs has long been reported by RPX. Now, with Amazon having recently brought that practice to the attention of Chief Judge Colm F. Connolly, and with a raft of amended disclosures filed on the same day last week by a handful of apparent IP Edge plaintiffs litigating before that same judge, the coming months may see the full extent of that setup, and its bearing on standing, come to light.

Optical Licensing LLC, a plaintiff associated with Texas monetization firm IP Edge LLC, has kicked off another campaign litigating a former Cypress Semiconductor patent received from Monterey Research, LLC, this one generally related to transferring data with a memory device. The NPE has filed suit against Avnet (6:21-cv-00187) and Berkshire Hathaway (Mouser Electronics) (6:21-cv-00187) over Xilinx’s Platform Flash XL (XCF128XFTG64C programmable logic), as well as against Arrow Electronics (6:21-cv-00187) and Future Electronics (6:21-cv-00187) over the provision of certain STMicro microcontrollers. At issue is the incorporation of “RAM and a RAM controller for providing asynchronous and synchronous memory access”.