Following several March dismissals, Visual Content IP, LLC, an NPE affiliated with Dominion Harbor Group, LLC, has filed two new complaints in its sole litigation campaign. These new filings target Brookstone (2:16-cv-00554) and Halo 2 Cloud (2:16-cv-00555), accusing the companies of infringing five patents (8,189,965; 8,384,947; 8,570,588; 8,693,047; 8,786,897) generally related to image capture units and image processing scanner systems. Visual Content had asserted various combinations of the same group of patents in its previous filings, which targeted HTC, Image Recognition Integrated Systems (IRIS), LG Electronics (LGE), and Samsung. Visual Content’s newest complaints list certain “all-in-one scanner and mouse” devices as the accused products.

In 2015, seven NPEs controlled by Monument Patent Holdings, LLC filed over 40 patent infringement suits against operating companies—a marked increase compared to just nine cases lodged by two Monument entities (DataTech IP, LLC and Optical Tech IP) in 2014. Monument Patent Holdings was incorporated in Texas in December 2013 and is managed by four Dominion Harbor Group, LLC executives: David Pridham, Dominion’s CEO, formerly of IPNav; Matthew DelGiorno, Dominion’s president, formerly of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP; Conner Mowles, Dominion’s CFO, formerly of IPNav; and Lee Bradlee Sheafe, Dominion’s Chief IP Officer.

New NPE Visual Content IP, LLC has filed a second suit in its image capture campaign, asserting five patents (8,189,965; 8,384,947; 8,570,588; 8,693,047; 8,786,897) against LG Electronics (LGE) (2:15-cv-01839). The patents-in-suit generally relate to image capture units and image processing scanner systems, and the accused LGE products are certain “all-in-one scanner and mouse” devices and mobile devices. This suit is Visual Content’s second filed this month in its sole litigation campaign, following an initial lawsuit against Image Recognition Integrated Systems (2:15-cv-01765).