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Former BlackBerry Patents in Hand, Malikie Innovations Hits the Courts
New Patent Litigation
Last summer, the assignment of thousands of patent assets from BlackBerry to Malikie Innovations Limited, a subsidiary of Irish patent monetization firm Key Patent Innovations Limited (KPI), reflected the May 2023 completion of the deal between the two, described as involving the sale of “substantially all of [BlackBerry’s] non-core patents and patent applications”. Now, Malikie has filed suit, accusing Acer (2:24-cv-00179) and ASUSTek (2:24-cv-00178) in separate Eastern District of Texas complaints of infringing overlapping subsets of its received assets through the provision of features such as video coding, gesture-based touch controls, and power management within various devices, including Chromebooks, docks, laptops, and tablets.
March 15, 2024
KPI’s Pictiva Sues Samsung over Former OSRAM Patents
New Patent Litigation
The public website of Key Patent Innovations Limited (KPI) advertises three portfolios, one held by each of Malikie Innovations Limited (former BlackBerry patents), Pictiva Displays International Limited (former OSRAM patents), and Valtrus Innovations Limited (former HP Enterprise (HPE) patents). Valtrus has been litigating its portfolio since early 2022, Malikie has yet to litigate the patents that it received earlier this year, and now, with a new Eastern District of Texas suit against Samsung (2:23-cv-00495), Pictiva has turned to US courts.
October 22, 2023
As Wider Changes Loom, BlackBerry Moves to End Litigation over Patent Divestiture
Patent Market, Patent Watch
A telephonic conference held this week shed light on the status of Tech+IP Advisory’s litigation against BlackBerry, which earlier this year divested its legacy patent portfolio to Malikie Innovations Limited in a transaction for which Tech+IP claims credit—and wants payment. Meanwhile, having handed off those patents and wound down its smartphone business, BlackBerry announced earlier this month that it intends to separate—and take public—its Internet of Things (IoT) business unit.
October 13, 2023
Valtrus Sues the Big Three Wireless Carriers
New Patent Litigation, TPLF
Valtrus Innovations Limited has launched a third campaign (as a formal matter), filing separate Eastern District of Texas suits against AT&T (AT&T Mobility) (2:23-cv-00443); Deutsche Telekom (Sprint, T-Mobile) and OnePlus (2:23-cv-00444); and Verizon (Verizon Wireless) (2:23-cv-00445). The defendants are accused of infringing the same set of nine former HP Enterprise (HPE) patents (with a tenth also mentioned in each complaint) through the provision of a wide array of products, including conference call systems, networking products, smartphones, and more, including proprietary products as well as products made by others.
October 1, 2023
BlackBerry Patent Sale Spawns More Litigation, This Time from Tech+IP Advisory
Patent Market, Patent Watch
BlackBerry’s divestment of substantially all of its non-core patents assets to Malikie Innovations Limited may be in the rearview, the transaction having closed in May of this year, but the deal continues to spark new litigation: first from Catapult IP Innovations, Inc., which failed to complete its earlier attempt to buy the BlackBerry portfolio; and more recently, from Tech+IP Advisory, which was hired to facilitate BlackBerry’s patent sale.
September 1, 2023
Claiming Breach of Contract, Catapult IP Seeks to Unwind BlackBerry’s Patent Sale to Malikie
Patent Market, Patent Watch
In early May, BlackBerry completed the sale of “substantially all of its non-core patents and patent applications” to Malikie Innovations Limited—a subsidiary of Irish patent monetization firm Key Patent Innovations Limited—for $200M in upfront and guaranteed payments, plus a profit-sharing agreement. The transaction closed roughly 16 months after BlackBerry announced a tentative agreement to sell the same portfolio to York Eggleston’s Catapult IP Innovations Inc.—which is now seeking to compel Malikie to participate in an arbitration against BlackBerry to unwind last month’s transaction.
June 4, 2023
Amid an Alice Challenge by Google, Valtrus Innovations Acquires More Former HPE Patents from Ocean Tomo
Patent Market, Patent Watch, TPLF
Early last month, Valtrus Innovations Limited (f/k/a Dolya Holdco 9 Limited), an Irish NPE controlled by Key Patent Innovations Limited, received yet another batch of former HP Enterprise (HPE) patents from an Ocean Tomo, LLC affiliate—bringing the NPE’s US patent holdings to over 1,300. Meanwhile, an Alice motion filed by Alphabet (Google) in March, challenging four of the six former HPE patents that Valtrus has asserted against it, awaits a ruling.
June 3, 2022
Following Suit Against Google, Valtrus Innovations Receives More Patents
Patent Market, Patent Watch, TPLF
USPTO records reflect a new assignment of former HP Enterprise (HPE) patents to Valtrus Innovations Limited (f/k/a Dolya Holdco 9 Limited), an Irish NPE controlled by Key Patent Innovations Limited. Executed in early February, the assignment closely follows Valtrus’s inaugural US patent case, filed in January of this year against Alphabet (Google), and brings the NPE’s US patent holdings to over 1,100.
March 9, 2022
Irish NPE Files First Suit over Large Portfolio Pickup
New Patent Litigation, TPLF
Throughout 2021, Valtrus Innovations Limited (f/k/a Dolya Holdco 9 Limited) received at least 800 former HP Enterprise (HPE) patents through four assignments, one direct and the others via Ocean Tomo, LLC (as OT Patent Escrow LLC). Valtrus has now filed its first lawsuit, accusing Alphabet (Google) (3:22-cv-00066) of infringing six of those US patents through the provision of various software products, including Google Search, Google Cloud, and Google Cloud Run. Valtrus is an Irish NPE that corporate records link to a group of individuals behind several recent large portfolio acquisitions from operating companies.
January 16, 2022