In a further expansion of its massive litigation campaign, Electronic Communication Technologies LLC (f/k/a Eclipse IP, LLC) (ECT) has made another eleven filings against a swath of online retailers. The NPE accuses Acecom (2:16-cv-01363), Action Envelope & Printing (2:16-cv-01364), Artbeads.com (2:16-cv-01365), Birthday Direct (2:16-cv-01366), Bulbs.com (2:16-cv-01367), CandyWarehouse.com (2:16-cv-01368), IHF Holdings (Icon Health & Fitness) (2:16-cv-01370), Gump’s Holdings (2:16-cv-01369), Parts Express (2:16-cv-01371), Super Warehouse (2:16-cv-01372), and Tea Living (d/b/a Tea Collection) (2:16-cv-01373) of infringing three patents (7,319,414; 7,876,239; 9,373,261) generally related to tracking shipments online and notifying recipients of their progress. As in a previous round of complaints filed by ECT in late September, these latest defendants are alleged to infringe through the order and shipping confirmation features offered by their respective websites. On December 8, just two days after each complaint was filed, ECT dropped the ‘414 and ‘239 patents from all eleven cases by amended complaint. ECT did the same on December 2 for its case against ShoppersChoice.com (9:16-cv-81677), one of the suits brought in the NPE’s September wave of filings.

Prolific NPE Electronic Communication Technologies LLC (f/k/a Eclipse IP, LLC) (ECT) has filed another wave of filings in its massive litigation campaign, hitting retailers Atman (9:16-cv-81671), Icahn Enterprises (Pep Boys) (9:16-cv-81676), Lakeshore Equipment Company (9:16-cv-81672), Minted (9:16-cv-81669), Orvis (9:16-cv-81675), and ShoppersChoice.com (9:16-cv-81677) over the order and shipping confirmation features offered by their respective websites. Each company is alleged to infringe three patents (7,319,414; 7,876,239; 9,373,261) generally related to tracking shipments online and notifying recipients of their progress.

In the beginning of March, RPX saw 10 transfers of patents recorded with the USPTO.

Google was sued by Eclipse IP. The majority of Eclipse’s prior litigations have asserted patents related to tracking notifications for deliveries but this new suit involves a patent that has been involved in one earlier case, filed in June 2013 against retailer Sears. The patent-in-suit relates to providing location-based advertising to users (8,068,037) and the Waze app, acquired by Google in 2013, is accused of infringing the asserted patents by advertising nearby businesses to users. Eclipse’s patents were developed by inventor/attorney Scott Horstmeyer. The entity also has a large ongoing campaign against companies that provide location-based tracking services, with more than 80 cases filed to date. 12/27, Central District of California, 12:13cv09502