Last week, Genghiscomm Holdings, LLC filed a second complaint against Samsung (2:24-cv-00901) in the Eastern District of Texas. Asserted is a single patent from the same family to which the eight patents already in suit belong, this one broadly directed to discrete Fourier transform-spread orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (DFT-spread OFDM) used in LTE uplink. Samsung has answered the complaint in the prior suit, in which the court has set a schedule and moved the matter into discovery.

Inventor-controlled plaintiff GenghisComm Holdings, LLC has added Samsung (2:24-cv-00242) to its sole litigation campaign, which targets devices that are compliant with the 4G/LTE and 5G wireless networking standards. In the new Eastern District of Texas complaint, the plaintiff asserts eight patents broadly directed to wireless communications. Since launching this campaign in March 2022, GenghisComm has sued eight defendants, including ASUSTek, Continental, LG Electronics (LGE), OnePlus, and Toyota.

Recently recorded patent assignments made public by the USPTO contain noteworthy transfers to multiple plaintiffs now in litigation, including a new source of patents for Apex Beam Technologies LLC, a new source of patents for Pantech Corporation, and a familiar source of patent rights for Crystal Leap Zrt, this time assigning patents directly, though. Movement can also be seen from troubled patent monetization firm IP Edge LLC, as well as movement from various sources to patent broker Allied Security Trust. Take a look.

In a new Western District of Texas complaint, GenghisComm Holdings, LLC has accused Continental Automotive Systems (6:24-cv-00024) of infringing eight wireless communications patents. Targeted is the provision of automotive telematics control units (TCUs) and Network Access Devices (NADs) that allegedly offer LTE and 5G network connectivity (including, for example, to enable in-car Wi-Fi hotspots) and “that adhere to the LTE and 5G standards”. The plaintiff pleads, however, that it “has no FRAND obligations because it did not participate in standard setting” and that “[a] separate, third-party standard setting body—with no participation or other involvement by GenghisComm—chose to declare as essential to the standard setting body’s standards the technology already invented, taught, and patented by GenghisComm through its prior patent filings”.

GenghisComm Holdings, LLC has filed a Southern District of California case against multiple LG Electronics (LGE) entities (3:23-cv-01363), targeting the provision of mobile devices (e.g., smartphones and tablets) compliant with the 4G LTE or 5G wireless standards. Eight wireless communications patents are asserted, drawn from the same portfolio giving rise to claims against prior defendants in this campaign: ASUSTek, OnePlus, and Toyota.

GenghisComm Holdings, LLC has launched a new wireless networking campaign, suing ASUSTek (2:22-cv-00066) in the Eastern District of Texas and OnePlus (6:22-cv-00245) in the Western District of Texas. Both defendants are alleged to infringe five wireless communications patents through the respective provision of certain devices operating according to either LTE or 5G standards. The sole named inventor for each of the patents-in-suit is described in the complaints as GenghisComm’s director.