The other new IP Edge LLC campaign, launched at the end of June over a Prashant Parikh patent, has been initiated by Hitel Technologies LLC, which sued Giorgio Armani (6:20-cv-00590), Gucci (6:20-cv-00592), Levi Strauss (6:20-cv-00589), and Nike (6:20-cv-00591) over the provision of e-commerce websites allowing product browsing. The asserted patent generally relates to processing searched keywords to determine associations between “user-navigable nodes”.

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.