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An Update on Patent Litigation, the Patent Marketplace, and New Cases
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Monday, October 20, 2025
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RPX’s third-quarter review takes a look back at the top patent trends in Q3 2025, including the latest on district court filings, the PTAB, the UPC, SEP licensing, and US patent policy. Read the full report today.
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Top Insight
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The past week ended with a series of changes that could significantly reshape the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). On October 17, recently confirmed USPTO Director John Squires announced that the entire America Invents Act (AIA) review institution process would now be handled by the director, including the assessment of discretionary denial requests as well as the merits and nondiscretionary factors—making those determinations with no accompanying written decisions in most cases. That same day, the USPTO also published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that would bar AIA review institution unless petitioners stipulate not to raise invalidity challenges under Section 102 or 103 in parallel litigation, where the parallel forum would likely address validity on that basis before the PTAB issues its final written decision, or where the patent’s validity has already been upheld by another forum.
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Patent Litigation Feature
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District of Delaware Chief Judge Colm F. Connolly has set November 20, 2025 for a hearing to consider the application of William P. Ramey III of Ramey LLP to appear pro hac vice in a case filed by WirelessWERX IP LLC against Tracki. Ramey has been ordered to file by October 31 “a sworn declaration in which he (1) identifies all the cases he has participated in or is currently participating in as counsel of record in this District and (2) avers whether he has ever been found by a court or state bar disciplinary body to have violated a rule, order, code, or norm of professional conduct”. WirelessWERX IP has disclosed Ramey LLP as a “Third-Party Funder”, but it has not updated its ownership disclosure since the case was assigned to Judge Connolly. All this activity occurs roughly 18 months after Judge Connolly postponed a hearing in a set of Ramey-repped MISSED CALL, LLC cases in light of a conflict with a “scheduled procedure” cited back then by Ramey.
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New Patent Litigation
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NovaCloud Licensing LLC has filed a Delaware complaint against Amazon (Amazon Web Services) (1:25-cv-01272) in its campaign over former Ericsson patents. The plaintiff began this litigation with a suit in the same district against Meta Platforms, followed by an Eastern District of Texas complaint against IBM. Pending before District Judge Maryellen Noreika is a Meta motion for partial dismissal, of indirect infringement claims across the board as well as of direct infringement claims with respect to two of the five asserted patents. An amended complaint in East Texas may moot a motion to dismiss from IBM, there challenging, among other things, whether one of the six patents-in-suit is directed to patentable subject matter.
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So far in October, inventor-controlled Intercurrency Software LLC has expanded its sole litigation campaign with separate Eastern District of Texas cases against bitFlyer (2:25-cv-01032), CoinJar Australia Proprietary (2:25-cv-01033), Emergent Technology Holdings (Interpay) (2:25-cv-01022), Finastra (2:25-cv-01027), Rapyd Payments (2:25-cv-01031), Santander Group (Ebury Partners UK) (2:25-cv-01030), Thunes Asia (2:25-cv-01029), and Visa (The Currency Cloud) (2:25-cv-01023). The asserted patent generally relates to a trading system that allows users to set a preferred currency and view trading information on assets in that currency, with the defendants accused of infringement through the provision of their respective “consolidated trading” platforms.
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Individual named inventor Mark F. McClellan has filed a Northern District of Illinois complaint against Alphabet (Google) (1:25-cv-12761). Asserted is a single patent generally related to storing data “regarding activities of a person and/or people associated with a website that is indexed in a search engine” in order to weight search results associated with that website. McClellan targets the provision of Google’s “large-scale search engine that incorporates a local search feature, including a system for ranking websites”. Per the new complaint, “Google’s local search feature produces 2.3 Trillion searches per year and earns Google over $90 Billion per year in revenue”.
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TIR Technologies Limited has hit Meta Platforms (8:25-cv-02345) with a Central District of California complaint targeting the provision of media content delivery features within its various platforms (i.e., Facebook, Instagram, Thread, Messenger, and WhatsApp). The plaintiff, linked to Dublin-based monetization firm Atlantic IP Services, has certified that BC Law Group, P.C., its litigation counsel, is the only known nonparty with a “pecuniary interest in the outcome of the case”.
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IoT Innovations LLC, an Empire IP LLC plaintiff, has sued D-Link (2:25-cv-01009) over the provision of its "various home security platforms and systems", ranging from mesh networking systems and switches to connected home hubs and websites. Asserted in the Eastern District of Texas complaint are ten patents received from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV) in July 2022. Public records suggest that IV retains an interest in the monetization of the transacted portfolio, although IoT Innovations has not disclosed that interest in court. D-Link is already a defendant in another Empire IP campaign.
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MEMS Innovations LLC has filed a pair of complaints, one against TDK (TDK Corporation of America, TDK USA) in the Eastern District of Texas (6:25-cv-00388) and another against TDK (InvenSense, TDK Corporation of America) in the Central District of California (8:25-cv-02251). A piezoelectric speaker patent is newly asserted in the former case while in the latter, MEMS Innovations asserts two piezoelectric microspeaker patents previously in suit against TDK. There, MEMS Innovations certifies that there are no nonparties with a pecuniary interest in the outcome of the suit, although Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) owns the asserted patents.
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California plaintiff Haptix Solutions LLC, the exclusive licensee of a single asserted patent that generally relates to a “pointing apparatus capable of providing haptic feedback”, has returned to litigation, suing Micro-Star International (MSI Computer) (8:25-cv-02354) in the Central District of California. Oddly, in connection with its brief 2024 case in the same district against Microsoft, Haptix identified the owner of the asserted patent, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), as an interested nonparty. Here, Haptix does not.
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Control Sync Systems LLC (CSS) sued Sony, in the Eastern District of Texas; then LG Electronics (LGE), in the District of New Jersey; VIZIO (3:25-cv-02602), in the Northern District of Texas; and TCL (TTE Technology) (8:25-cv-02352), in the Central District of California, all over a patent generally related to controlling the “video and audio parameters of a display device and a play device”. CSS has disclosed to the Northern District of Texas that it has no parent, concurrently submitting a required “complete list” of financially interested entities that purportedly includes only the named parties. Elsewhere, both before and after, CSS has disclosed a parent; it is unclear why that parent is missing from its North Texas filing, since it is presumably still CSS’s parent as well as, obviously, a financially interested nonparty.
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Two of the five cases that FinTegrity LLC has just filed, against Bank of America (2:25-cv-01017) and Barclays (Barclays Bank) (2:25-cv-01018), were dismissed within three days, while a third, against Comerica (Comerica Bank) (2:25-cv-01019), persisted for ten. Separate suits against Deutsche Bank (2:25-cv-01020) and ThreatMark (2:25-cv-01021) have almost made it past the two-week mark. The defendants, each sued in the Eastern District of Texas, are accused of infringing a single patent generally related to “authorizing financial transactions” through the provision of “anti-money laundering (AML) software designed for transaction monitoring”.
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In Case You Missed It
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Ramey LLP attorneys William P. Ramey, III and Jeffrey E. Kubiak, together with former Ramey LLP attorney Susan S.Q. Kalra and Ramey LLP client KOJI IP LLC, have filed a “sixth urgent plea”, asking the Federal Circuit to issue a stay of “penal sanctions” imposed by Northern District of California Magistrate Judge Peter H. Kang earlier this year. Those sanctions include reporting requirements that Ramey contends are causing “reputational damage” and violating constitutional rights, Ramey having earlier decried the inability to apply for pro hac vice admission “in most jurisdictions as he must disclose that he is ineligible to practice in Colorado”. Per the movants, almost six months is too long to wait for Judge Kang’s order.
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