Its last case dismissed on May 1, 2024 by Northern District of Illinois Judge John Robert Blakey for failure to prosecute and failure to comply with court orders, Gatekeeper Solutions, Inc. has sued Forcepoint (1:24-cv-00601), this time in the Western District of Texas. Both complaints were filed by Joseph J. Zito, alternately of Whitestone Law and DNL Zito, not by Gatekeeper’s former counsel, William P. Ramey III of Ramey LLP. This campaign is one embroiled in the shift from Ramey to Zito that occurred as the relationship between Ramey and litigation finance and services firm AiPi soured; however, nowhere—including in districts that impose heightened disclosure requirements—has Gatekeeper identified AiPi as an interested party.

This past November, District of Colorado Magistrate Judge N. Reid Neureiter ordered William P. Ramey III of Ramey LLP to show cause in writing “why he should not be referred to the Court’s Committee on Conduct for his neglectful behavior in this case, including his failure to appear at a scheduling conference and his failure to serve any discovery”. Ramey’s response was to address five specific pieces of information “relevant to the issues of whether Mr. Ramey and his firm are spread too thin to provide competent representation”. Ramey filed his response—the contents of which have pulled back the curtain on a broad patent monetization operation, including arguably improper legal work, numerous inaccurate certificates of interested parties, and third-party litigation funding lurking in the shadows.

Gatekeeper Solutions, Inc. has initiated its first litigation, suing Cisco (6:23-cv-00514), Meta Platforms (6:23-cv-00516), Microsoft (LinkedIn) (6:23-cv-00515), and Ziff Davis (ThreatTrack Security) (6:23-cv-00522) in the Western District of Texas. The plaintiff accuses the defendants of infringing a single patent generally related to a system for preventing an “electronic communication” intended for two or more recipients from being sent to a “conflicting recipient”. Targeted are the provision of features for managing “the sending of electronic communications” within the Cisco Armorblox Email Security service, the Facebook platform, the LinkedIn platform, and ThreatTrack’s VIPRE Safesend product.