In recent months, RPX has flagged various approaches that patent litigants are taking to avoid the heightened corporate and third-party funding disclosure requirements in Chief Judge Colm F. Connolly’s courtroom. As shown by his stay in early August of a case filed by VLSI Technology LLC against Intel, and his more recent stay of an IP Edge LLC case against Amazon, parties attempting to circumvent Judge Connolly’s new standing orders should expect to face consequences.

This past June, Invincible IP LLC, an apparent IP Edge LLC plaintiff, launched a campaign over the alleged infringement of up to five former Empire Technology Development LLC patents, of disparate origins, through the provision of infrastructure software products and solutions. The deadlines to respond to those five District of Delaware complaints have all been extended to October 1. As part of its end-of-August filing spree, the Texas monetization firm has now added four more Delaware suits to the mix, one filed against each of Dell (Boomi) (1:21-cv-01224), HashiCorp (1:21-cv-01227), LifeRay Cloud (1:21-cv-01226), and Salesforce (MuleSoft) (1:21-cv-01228).

Apparent IP Edge LLC plaintiff Invincible IP LLC has sued Alibaba (Alibaba Cloud US) (1:21-cv-00956), Citrix Systems (1:21-cv-00954), DigitalOcean (1:21-cv-00959), NetApp (1:21-cv-00960), and Nutanix (1:21-cv-00955) over the alleged infringement of up to five former Empire Technology Development LLC patents, of disparate origins, through the provision of infrastructure software products and solutions. These filings put the number of litigation campaigns that entities associated with IP Edge have begun over patents picked up from Empire Technology at 12.