Patent transfers recently made public by the USPTO include multiple assignments between NPEs, several of which have litigated previously received assets, but others of which are new and have yet to file suit. They also include a grant to the US Treasury Department of four assets, one of which was “litigated” through this past July, when Western District of Texas Judge Alan D. Albright, on the court’s own motion, brought the campaign to an end.

In early 2023, Chief Judge Rodney Gilstrap was to preside over a trial between Collision Communications, Inc. (f/k/a Collision Technology, LLC) and Nokia in the first case that the plaintiff filed in this, its only litigation campaign; a settlement ended that proceeding a few weeks after Nokia filed a motion challenging Collision’s standing to sue over its patents. Now, the plaintiff has returned to litigation, this time suing Lenovo (2:23-cv-00594) and Samsung (2:23-cv-00587) in separate cases, also filed in the Eastern District of Texas, over two of the patents asserted against Nokia—and against Ericsson in a parallel suit—together with four others.

Collision Communications, Inc. (f/k/a Collision Technology, LLC) has sued Nokia (2:21-cv-00308) in an Eastern District of Texas complaint alleging infringement of five mobile communications patents. The plaintiff targets Nokia over the provision of various 3G and 4G LTE infrastructure products used to build separate 3G and LTE networks for AT&T, Nextlink Internet, T-Mobile/Sprint, and Verizon.