Inventor Leigh M. Rothschild’s media transfer campaign is about to see its first transfer out of the Eastern District of Texas in the wake of the US Supreme Court’s decision in TC Heartland v. Kraft Foods Group Brands (2016-0341). On June 20, Magistrate Judge Roy S. Payne granted an unopposed motion to transfer to the Western District of Washington filed by HTC subsidiary HTC America in a case brought against it in January by the Rothschild-controlled NPE Display Technologies, LLC (2:17-cv-00070). That transfer motion explicitly cites TC Heartland and alleges that the original venue is improper because HTC America “does not have a regular and established place of business” in the Eastern District. The suit alleges infringement of a single media transfer patent (9,300,723) through the provision of Android-based smartphones offering Android Beam, a file-sharing feature that uses near-field communications (NFC) to initiate Bluetooth file transfers to another device.

Display Technologies, LLC, one of the many NPEs controlled by inventor Leigh M. Rothschild, has rebooted its sole litigation campaign with four new lawsuits against BLU Products (2:17-cv-00067), HTC (2:17-cv-00070), LG Electronics (2:17-cv-00069), and ZTE (2:17-cv-00068). The companies are accused of infringing a single media transfer patent (9,300,723) related to the one asserted in previous lawsuits (8,671,195), which targeted makers of Wi-Fi-enabled digital cameras and related image transfer apps (C&A IP Holdings, JK Imaging, Ricoh, GoPro) along with providers of software allowing media transfer and streaming (NVIDIA, Sony, Samsung, Valve). At issue in the new complaints are Android-based smartphones offering Android Beam, a file-sharing feature that uses near-field communications (NFC) to initiate Bluetooth file transfers to another device.

This month has so far seen two new litigation campaigns launched by NPEs controlled by Leigh M. Rothschild. First came Scanning Technologies Innovations, LLC (STI), which sued ERPLY (2:16-cv-00487), First Data (Clover Network) (2:16-cv-00500), NCR (2:16-cv-00488), Realtime POS (2:16-cv-00490), Revel Systems (2:16-cv-00492), Shopify (2:16-cv-00501), Quetzal POS (2:16-cv-00486), and Vend (2:16-cv-00504) between May 10-13. On May 12, Digital Verification Systems, LLC (DVS) filed suit against Adobe (2:16-cv-00495), Barracuda Networks (2:16-cv-00496), Citrix (2:16-cv-00497), and Docusign (2:16-cv-00499). This month’s infringement suits are the first filed by STI and DVS.