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First Suits by New NPE Focus on Samsung’s and Sony’s Electronic Devices
PLDN Holdings is one of several new NPEs that launched their first infringement suits this week. In separate lawsuits against Samsung and Sony, PLDN alleges defendants are infringing a patent related to distribution of user-preferred audio recordings from a service center to a large group of subscribers (6,278,976). The complaints accuse defendants’ electronic devices including computers, laptops, tablets, and smartphones of infringing the ‘976 patent. PLDN was incorporated in Texas last month, shortly before it acquired the patent-in-suit from an individual inventor. This appears to be the first time the patent has been litigated. 6/30, Texas Eastern District Court, 4:14cv00432, 4:14cv00433
July 3, 2014
Former DataPlay Patents Asserted in New NPE’s Blu-ray Campaign
New NPE Sequent Data filed ten infringement suits in a single day against ASUS, Buffalo Americas, Hitachi-LG Data Storage, Panasonic, Pioneer Electronics, Plextor, Memorex, Sony, Toshiba, and Verbatim. Each suit asserts two patents related to recording and formatting data on a storage disk (6,738,333, 7,051,054). The complaints accuse defendants’ Blu-ray writers, burners, and recordable discs of accusing the patents-in-suit. Both patents originated with DataPlay, a failed operating company taken over by DPHI Acquisitions in 2002. DPHI assigned the patents to Enhanced Data Solutions in June 2012. Sequent Data says it is the current owner of the ‘333 and ‘054 patents, but the last assignments on record are between Enhanced Data and Clearwater Innovations in July 2013. It does not appear that the two patents were asserted in litigation prior to Sequent Data’s initial suits. 7/1, Delaware District Court, 1:14cv00855, 1:14cv00856, 1:14cv00857, 1:14cv00858, 1:14cv00859, 1:14cv00860, 1:14cv00861, 1:14cv00862, 1:14cv00863, 1:14cv00864
July 3, 2014