In 2024, S3G Technology LLC has expanded its over eight-year long litigation campaign with suits against Kohl’s (5:24-cv-00016) in the Eastern District of Texas and The TJX Companies (6:24-cv-00059) in the Western District of Texas. The three patents-in-suit, among nine that have been asserted throughout the campaign, are broadly directed to communications between a “terminal machine” and a “service provider machine”. The defendants are accused of infringement through the provision of their respective mobile apps and related servers, software, and systems, with features related to communications between those mobile apps and servers at issue.

For more than seven years, S3G Technology LLC has been suing companies in either the Eastern or Western District of Texas over the provision of mobile apps for retail, asset tracking, digital key operation, etc. The latest defendants are Best Buy (2:23-cv-00005), Staples (6:23-cv-00004), and The Buckle (4:23-cv-00011) over the provision of their respective apps, S3G identifying overlapping sets of up to three patents-in-suit, from a total of eight now asserted across the more than 30 complaints filed in this campaign. Those patents generally relate to communications between a client and a server, with pleading over the years increasingly focused on the purported advantages of the “unique and very specific type of computer system structure involving three entities: a service provider machine [. . .], a terminal machine[,] and an update server machine” described.