Since April 2015, seven NPEs managed by two partners at IP Valuation Partners LLC have collectively filed over 30 patent infringement suits against operating companies. Six of these NPEs were incorporated in Texas in 2015. (Gene Reader LLC was incorporated in Texas in 2014.) Each NPE is managed by IP Valuation’s Jason Bourgeois (a former patent agent trained in biomedical engineering) or Jonathan Szarzynski (a former patent licensing director at IPNav). Spangler Law P.C. represents all seven of the NPEs in litigation.

Newly formed Minero Digital, LLC filed a single suit against 26 companies, including Amazon, Anker, Belkin, Best Buy, Fry’s, Newegg (Rosewill) Office Depot, Staples, and Wal-Mart (2:15-cv-01537). The complaint focuses on USB hubs and extenders made, imported, distributed, and/or sold by the defendants. Minero alleges that the products infringe a patent concerning low-power digital serial bus technology (5,675,811).