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Monetization Veterans Announce Acquisition of “Foundational Patent Portfolio of Cloud-Based Technologies”
Patent Market, Patent Watch
Earlier this month, NovaCloud Licensing LLC announced the launch of “a new licensing effort to provide more accessibility to patented technologies that are fundamental to driving innovations across the cloud computing and datacenter sectors”. The firm indicated in its press release that it has acquired “a foundational patent portfolio of cloud-based technologies” from Ericsson, which NovaCloud’s public website suggests has global reach, including 40 patent families and more than 40 US patents. Joe Chernesky and Bill Goldman, both behind VideoLabs, Inc., lead the NovaCloud team.
June 19, 2024
VideoLabs Tests Interplay Between Parallel District Court and ITC Actions
In Case You Missed It, TPLF
After a loss before the International Trade Commission (ITC), VideoLabs, Inc. has returned to a Western District of Texas case stayed before Judge Alan D. Albright to try again, under what it argues are changed factual circumstances. In a motion to the lift the stay and begin trial court proceedings, the plaintiff argues that ITC findings are not binding on district courts and that “a change in ownership of family member patents and the filing of terminal disclaimers” undermines the ITC’s determination that two of its asserted patents are invalid for obviousness-type double patenting. Defendant HP opposes this broader request and seeks a modification of the stay, one that solely permits the court’s consideration of “early dispositive motions on invalidity”.
June 7, 2024
March Closes with the Recordation of Plenty Notable Patent Assignments
Patent Market, Patent Watch
In addition to the announced divestiture of a large tranche of VoIP patents from Avaya to Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC, March 2024 saw several other operating companies—including DXC Technology, Huawei, and SOLiD—unload patent assets. Several NPE enterprises also moved patents around, internally or to other NPEs, seemingly in preparation for new assertion campaigns.
April 4, 2024
A Last 2023 Look at Notable Patent Assignments
Patent Market, Patent Watch
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.
December 17, 2023
VideoLabs Files Against Roku in Delaware, West Texas Trial Continued to January
New Patent Litigation, TPLF
VideoLabs, Inc. and its subsidiary VL Collective IP, LLC have added a case against Roku (1:23-cv-01136) to its sole litigation campaign. In the District of Delaware complaint, Roku is targeted with six patents, one of which is new to the campaign, over its provision of a wide array of streaming hardware and software products. At issue are features ranging from content programming to compliance with the HDCP copy-protection scheme. The new complaint drops roughly four weeks after Western District of Texas Judge Alan D. Albright postponed trial in the first case filed in this campaign, against Dell, from October 2023 to January 2024.
October 20, 2023
Multiple Parties Await Alice Rulings from Judge Sitting by Designation in Delaware
In Case You Missed It
Buried in the recent activity in the VideoLabs, Inc. campaign is a months-long stall in Delaware cases filed against Meta Platforms and Netflix. Those suits were assigned to Eastern District of Pennsylvania Judge Joel H. Slomsky, sitting by designation in Delaware as Leonard P. Stark was elevated to the Federal Circuit and Gregory B. Williams joined the court in his place. Judge Slomsky held a hearing in February 2023 related to Alice motions that were pending upon reassignment, took the matters under advisement, and has yet to rule. That same sequence has also stalled litigation filed by BNP Holdings LLC against Intuit, that pause to await an Alice ruling in place since November 2022.
September 10, 2023
VideoLabs Bing-Bangs Repeat Defendants, While Another Argues MPEG LA License Covers More Than Just “Silent Movies”
Patent Litigation Feature, TPLF
VideoLabs, Inc. has filed additional Western District of Texas cases, one against each of ASUSTek (6:23-cv-00640) and HP (6:23-cv-00641). The plaintiff alleges infringement—of four patents by ASUSTek and two by HP—through the provision of products that incorporate certain touch screen displays, control voltage output, are compliant with the H.264 streaming standard, and/or support High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP). The new cases drop as separate International Trade Commission (ITC) investigations against the same two respondents have run into trouble and as the first district court cases in this campaign, now consolidated before Western District of Texas Judge Alan D. Albright, head toward an October 2023 trial.
September 3, 2023
More OpCo Patents Make Their Way into NPE Hands—and the Courts
Patent Market, Patent Watch, TPLF
BlackBerry’s sale of 32,000 patent assets to a Key Patent Innovations Limited sub this month has dominated discussion around patent divestures to NPEs. However, in the background, a number of smaller transactions involving operating company patents have recently come to light, some notable by virtue of their new owner’s ties to third-party litigation funding. At least one of those transactions has already resulted in new NPE litigation.
May 19, 2023
VideoLabs Sues Apple, Receives Patents from Exiting Defendants
New Patent Litigation
VideoLabs, Inc. and its subsidiary VL Collective IP, LLC have filed suit against Apple (3:23-cv-01307) in the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs accuse Apple of infringing two patents—one new to this litigation campaign, active since May 2021, and broadly directed to synchronizing streams involving two media files (e.g., a video and an audio file); and the other already asserted against Amazon, Lions Gate Entertainment (Starz Entertainment), and Netflix and generally pertaining to a touchscreen device with a certain physical assembly. Litigation in this campaign remains active as to ASUSTek, Dell, HP, Meta Platforms (Facebook, Giphy, Instagram, WhatsApp), Netflix, and Starz, while the disputes between VideoLabs and Acer, Amazon, Lenovo (Motorola Mobility), and Micro-Star International have ended, for two of them right around the time that additional patent assets were moved from those defendants to VideoLabs.
March 26, 2023
VideoLabs Sues HP in West Texas and Before the ITC
New Patent Litigation, TPLF
VideoLabs, Inc. has filed a pair of complaints against HP, one in the Western District of Texas (6:22-cv-01086) and another before the International Trade Commission (ITC) (337-TA-3650). These new pleadings follow complaints filed both in district court and before the ITC earlier this year against Acer, ASUSTek, Lenovo (Motorola Mobility), and Micro-Star International, with the three patents asserted against HP also in suit against the prior defendants. VideoLabs targets the HP Envy x360 15 and Victus-series laptops over their alleged support of certain video codecs, including H.264 (AVC), H.265 (HEVC), VP9, and/or AV1.
October 21, 2022