The Federal Circuit has reversed a Delaware judge’s invalidation of a memory patent asserted by IP Valuation Partners LLC affiliate Visual Memory LLC against NVIDIA. In May 2016, District Judge Richard G. Andrews granted the defendant’s Rule 12 motion to dismiss, accepting its argument that the patent-in-suit is invalid under Alice as directed to the abstract idea of “categorical data storage” without the addition of an inventive concept (1:15-cv-00789). However, in an opinion issued on August 15, the Federal Circuit overturned that decision, holding that the patent is directed to “an improvement to computer memory systems” and not to an abstract idea (2016-2254).

Numic Technology, LLC, one of the many NPEs controlled by Daniel F. Perez, has added four new defendants to its wireless camera campaign. The Texas-based NPE has filed suit against BLU Products (2:16-cv-00079), Sonim Technologies (2:16-cv-00080), TCL (TCT Mobile, dba Alcatel OneTouch) (2:16-cv-00081), and ZTE (2:16-cv-00078) for the infringement of eight patents in the Eastern District of Texas. Numic began this litigation campaign, its first and only one to date, with a lawsuit against Nikon (2:15-cv-01046) in June 2015, asserting a single patent (5,969,698) also included in its newest filings. The NPE dismissed its case against Nikon with prejudice in late October 2015, while the other cases remain active and in the early stages. The accused products have included smartphones and tablets.