Since April 2015, a group of 11 NPEs managed by Nicolas J. Labbit have collectively filed over 250 patent infringement suits against operating companies. Each of the NPEs detailed in this report were incorporated in Texas in 2015 and launched their first and only litigation campaigns this year. Labbit appears to have formed a solo practice after working as an associate at Stevens Love, a small law firm in Longview, Texas that no longer exists. According to Texas State Bar records, Labbit graduated from Texas Wesleyan University School of Law (now Texas A&M University School of Law) in May 2010.

In the first half of December 2015, RPX saw 14 patent transfers to NPEs recorded with the USPTO. A number of those transactions involved patents that have recently been asserted in litigation against operating companies.

Motile Optics, LLC, Iris Connex, LLC, and Fun Slide, LLC are the ninth, tenth, and eleventh Texas entities formed and managed by attorney Nicolas J. Labbit to have launched a litigation campaign in 2015. These latest three entities all filed at least some of the cases in their new campaigns on November 30, 2015, the day before amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure took effect.