Monetization firm IP Edge LLC has filed two more suits in what may be among the most tangled of its many campaigns. The new litigation was filed against Mitel Networks (1:21-cv-01232) and TeamViewer (1:21-cv-01231) by Fusion IP LLC, one of four IP Edge plaintiffs to bring suits as part of this campaign, interwoven in part due to a complicated set of apparently erroneous assignments of the asserted former Xerox patents by and between various IP Edge entities, including multiple corrections. Additionally, in June of this year, Compulink Management Center, Inc. (d/b/a Laserfiche) filed a Central District of California declaratory judgment action against one of the other three plaintiffs, Realm Licensing LLC, pleading on information and belief that the actions filed by that plaintiff have all “been baseless and settled with a walk away or a sum that is substantially less than the cost of defense”. Laserfiche’s complaint discloses a specific dollar figure from an “unsolicited offer” to settle one of Realm’s cases.

Twice now, Texas monetization firm IP Edge LLC has acquired a portfolio of patent assets from Xerox (directly or from subsidiary Palo Alto Research Corporation (PARC)) from which multiple litigation campaigns have arisen. Most recently, IP Edge entity Majandro LLC picked up over 130 such assets, subsequently moving them to sister entities Fusion IP LLC, Milestone IP LLC, Paradise IP LLC, and Realm Licensing LLC for assertion. Last month, Milestone IP launched a financial services campaign, with the other three filing their first complaints this month. Fusion IP’s complaint raises questions, however, about what corporate entity actually owns two of the patents that it purports to assert.