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In TrackThings Trial, Nothing Is Proven
Patent Litigation Feature
Last week, a West Texas jury found that plaintiff TrackThings LLC failed to prove that Amazon subsidiary eero has infringed any of seven claims from three wireless networking patents tried. Per that jury, none of the three claims challenged as invalid were proven such, and none of the seven claims were proven to involve only “activities that were well-understood, routine, and conventional as of the effective filing date”. In other words, the jury said no to infringement, no to invalidity, and no to ineligibility.
October 12, 2024
TrackThings Appears to Add a Belt to Its Prior Suspenders
New Patent Litigation
On February 17, 2023, Western District of Texas Judge Alan D. Albright heard oral arguments related to a sealed motion filed by Amazon (and subsidiary eero) challenging the standing of plaintiff TrackThings LLC to bring a July 2021 lawsuit against them. Redacted versions of the briefs suggest that the parties agree that TrackThings owned the three asserted patents as of May 7, 2014 but that a May 12, 2014 agreement covering rights to those patents surfaced during discovery. However that hearing before Judge Albright went, that same day, TrackThings filed a new Western District of Texas complaint against Amazon and eero (6:23-cv-00133) largely tracking the things alleged in the prior case. Meanwhile, in TrackThings’s other suit, active against NETGEAR in the District of Delaware, the plaintiff faces an Alice challenge.
February 23, 2023
TrackThings Sues NETGEAR in June, Amazon in July
New Patent Litigation
Inventor-controlled TrackThings LLC has added a Western District of Texas case against Amazon (eero) (6:21-cv-00720) to the litigation campaign that it began in June with a Southern District of New York suit against NETGEAR. The same three wireless networking patents are asserted, with TrackThings pleading that its patents “cover fundamental pillars for commercially successful mesh WiFi systems”. Amazon and eero are targeted over the provision of various eero mesh Wi-Fi networking products, including routers and extenders, with “additional products” called out in the complaint (i.e., “Amazon Echo & Alexa products and Ring products, and services such as eero Secure, and eero Secure+”) as providing revenue allegedly “driven by and dependent on the use and sale of the Accused Products”.
July 13, 2021