On the one-year anniversary of its sole litigation campaign, Karetek Holdings LLC, an entity associated with Texas monetization firm IP Edge LLC, has added eight suits, one against each of AgileBits (1:21-cv-00613), Coinbase (1:21-cv-00614), Dashlane (1:21-cv-00615), Gandi (1:21-cv-00616), Keeper Security (1:21-cv-00617), Okta (1:21-cv-00619), OVH (1:21-cv-00620), and Stripe (1:21-cv-00621), all in the District of Delaware. The sole patent-in-campaign generally relates to accessing a network through an “access authority”. While earlier suits in the campaign focused on the defendants’ use of the OAuth authentication standard in their various e-commerce websites, Karetek targets in its latest complaints the support for U2F security keys and authentication standard in the defendants’ various products and services.

Texas monetization firm IP Edge LLC, through plaintiff Karetek Holdings LLC, has added five new cases to the campaign that it launched in April 2020 over a single patent generally related to accessing a network resource through an “access authority”. In its new complaints, Karetek Holdings accuses Alamo Drafthouse (6:20-cv-00681), AT&T (Rooster Teeth) (6:20-cv-00683), Grocery Delivery E-Services USA (d/b/a HelloFresh) (6:20-cv-00682), Lamps Plus (6:20-cv-00683), and PetSmart (6:20-cv-00684) in the Western District of Texas of infringement through the provision of e-commerce websites that use the OAuth authentication standard.

The litigation filed by Celebration IP LLC, targeting chipsets that control the discharge of lithium ion batteries; Forutome IP LLC, devices that feature a programmable tri-state buffer; Fury Technologies LLC, worksite drone platforms; and Swirlate IP LLC, the use of the HARQ protocol, were not the only new campaigns launched by IP Edge LLC last week. Two other plaintiffs associated with the prolific Texas monetization firm also started up litigation, one over devices using pulse width modulation (PWM) signals and the other, over the website use of the OAuth authentication standard. Meanwhile, multiple other signs point to a busy 2020 for IP Edge.