Funded plaintiff IOENGINE, LLC and defendant Roku are gearing up for an October 2023 trial before Western District of Texas Judge Alan D. Albright. There, IOENGINE accuses certain Roku streaming players of infringing claims from two IOENGINE patents, while it separately appeals a July 2022 judgment based on a Delaware jury verdict invalidating claims from two different patents from the same family—claims that the jury had also found infringed. Roku has faced multiple trials in Judge Albright’s courtroom—in cases filed by MV3 Partners LLC (in Judge Albright’s first ever patent trial) and ESW Holdings (his third)—and has both times prevailed.

In a December Western District of Texas complaint, IOENGINE, LLC has accused Roku (6:21-cv-01296) of infringing two patents from the same family that the inventor-controlled plaintiff has been litigating since late 2014. IOENGINE was awarded, in separate 2017 Delaware jury verdicts, $1.4M from Interactive Media (d/b/a Kanguru Solutions) and $11M from GlassBridge Enterprise (f/k/a Imation), for infringement of an earlier-issued patent from the same family. Since then, the plaintiff has been litigating alleged infringement of that patent and two others by Ingenico and its customer PayPal, with trial currently scheduled for the middle of 2022. At issue in the new West Texas complaint is the provision of Roku streaming devices, the Roku OS, and the Roku graphical user interface used by the streaming devices.

IOENGINE, LLC has sued PayPal (1:18-cv-00452) over a patent previously at issue in its sole litigation campaign, as well as two subsequently issuing family members. The patents generally relate to portable storage devices, with infringement allegations targeting PayPal’s provision of payment card readers and related mobile apps as used with the company’s servers to process various types of payment transactions. Just over a year ago, IOENGINE was awarded, in two separate jury verdicts, $1.4M from Interactive Media (d/b/a Kanguru Solutions) and $11M from GlassBridge Enterprise (f/k/a Imation), for infringement of the earlier-issued patent.