IP Edge LLC plaintiff Topdown Licensing LLC initiated the sixth new litigation campaign of the firm last month, suing Ableton (1:20-cv-00888), AlphaTheta (1:20-cv-00889), Gibson Brands (1:20-cv-00890), Native Instruments (2:20-cv-05800), and Sound United (1:20-cv-00891) over the provision of DJ controllers and related software. The three patents-in-campaign, each asserted against all of the defendants, generally relate to instruments for composing music through programmable controls.

Having launched over a dozen new campaigns during the first half of 2020, public records indicate that IP Edge LLC continues to create new Texas NPEs—including at least 20 in the past three months alone. It also appears to have a full pipeline of patents poised for litigation, with USPTO records reflecting a number of patent assignments to various IP Edge affiliates recorded this month. Meanwhile, multiple recent internal transfers among IP Edge NPEs gave rise to new litigation filed this past week.