This week, Dominion Harbor Group, LLC announced that it will acquire a portfolio of patents from Wi-LAN Inc. (WiLAN). This new partnership follows a spike in litigation campaigns initiated by NPEs managed by Dominion Harbor’s Monument Patent Holdings, LLC. As reported by RPX earlier this month, seven NPEs managed by Monument Patent Holdings filed nearly 50 patent infringement suits against operating companies in 2015—a marked increase compared to just nine cases lodged by two Monument entities (DataTech IP, LLC and Optical Tech IP) in 2014.

In 2015, seven NPEs controlled by Monument Patent Holdings, LLC filed over 40 patent infringement suits against operating companies—a marked increase compared to just nine cases lodged by two Monument entities (DataTech IP, LLC and Optical Tech IP) in 2014. Monument Patent Holdings was incorporated in Texas in December 2013 and is managed by four Dominion Harbor Group, LLC executives: David Pridham, Dominion’s CEO, formerly of IPNav; Matthew DelGiorno, Dominion’s president, formerly of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP; Conner Mowles, Dominion’s CFO, formerly of IPNav; and Lee Bradlee Sheafe, Dominion’s Chief IP Officer.