The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) saw petitions for AIA review filed against a variety of prolific litigants in June 2017, including General Patent Corporation, Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV), Quarterhill Inc. (f/k/a Wi-LAN Inc.), Realtime Data LLC, Uniloc Corporation Pty. Limited, and Xperi Corporation (f/k/a Tessera Holding Corporation). Also in June, the PTAB instituted trial for petitions brought against patents asserted in a variety of sprawling campaigns, including some waged by Acacia Research Corporation, IV, Papst Licensing, Quarterhill, and VirnetX Inc. The Board further issued final decisions throughout June in AIA reviews against patents involved in several notable campaigns, including some waged by Document Security Systems, Inc., Elm 3DS Innovations LLC, Empire IP LLC, and Quarterhill.

On June 8, Deep Green Wireless LLC, a subsidiary of General Patent Corporation (GPC), and Yealink Network Technology, the last of three defendants in its litigation campaign, filed a motion to dismiss the case in light of settlement. On that same day, Deep Green filed two new complaints, adding cases against Ooma (2:16-cv-00604) and Uniden (2:16-cv-00606) to the campaign. The NPE asserts a single patent (RE42,714) generally related to products that manage voice communication from multiple devices over land lines and wireless networks. The new complaints target the defendants’ base stations, including femtocell and access point products that operate using digital enhanced cordless telecommunications (DECT), a cordless phone standard.

Deep Green Wireless LLC, a subsidiary of General Patent Corporation (GPC), has added two defendants to the litigation campaign that it kicked off with a suit against NEC (2:15-cv-01186) in June of this year. On November 24, 2015, NEC and the NPE filed a joint motion to stay the case between them in light of impending settlement. A couple of weeks later, Deep Green has filed complaints against Mitel Networks (2:15-cv-02058) and Yealink Network Technologies (2:15-cv-02059), asserting the same patent (RE42,714). The ‘714 patent generally relates to products that manage voice communication from multiple devices over land lines and wireless networks. Deep Green’s complaints focus on the defendants’ base stations, including femtocell and access point products that operate using digital enhanced cordless telecommunications (DECT), a cordless phone standard.

In what appears to be its first patent infringement suit, Deep Green Wireless LLC, a subsidiary of General Patent Corporation, sued NEC Corporation (2:15-cv-01186). The patent-in-suit (RE42,714), which Deep Green developed and is a reissue of 6,778,662, generally relates to products that manage voice communication from multiple devices over a network. Deep Green’s complaint focuses on a variety of NEC’s base stations, including its femtocell and DECT access point products.