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Funded Hardin and Hill Campaign Picks Back Up with New Plaintiff
New Patent Litigation, TPLF
H2 Intellect LLC, an entity formed in Texas under the management of Ryan Hardin and Andrew Hill, has resumed the litigation campaign that had been proceeding with Hardin and Hill as individual plaintiffs. Three patents broadly directed to a content delivery platform for distributing programs based on the geographic location of a device are asserted in the new Eastern District of Texas complaint against IBM (2:24-cv-00367). H2 Intellect targets the support of geofencing technologies in various IBM products, including the IBM Streams, MaaS360, Max Engage with Watson, and Maximo Manage platforms.
May 17, 2024
Delaware Plaintiff Asserts Memory Patents Against Cisco
New Patent Litigation
Cisco (2:24-cv-00360) is the second defendant to be sued in the litigation campaign that Delaware plaintiff Innovations In Memory LLC (IIM) launched earlier this month with a suit against IBM. In the new Eastern District of Texas complaint, the plaintiff asserts three patents described as “concerning improvements in memory storage devices and systems”. Cisco is accused of infringement through the provision of a wide array of products, ranging from its “MDS 9000 Series Switches” to its “Unified Computing System”.
May 17, 2024
GoSecure Pegs CrowdStrike in West Texas
New Patent Litigation
Cybersecurity firm GoSecure, Inc. has sued CrowdStrike (1:24-cv-00526) in the Western District of Texas, alleging infringement of two patents generally related to using identifying unauthorized activities on a computer system attached to a computer network. The plaintiff targets the provision of CrowdStrike’s endpoint security software, including its various Falcon-series products. Outlined in the complaint are purported past interactions between GoSecure and the CrowdStrike founders, with knowledge of the asserted patents alleged to reach back to their respective dates of issuance in August 2015 and April 2018.
May 17, 2024
Embattled Damages Theory Lands Acceleration Bay a Jury Verdict in Delaware
Patent Litigation Feature
A Delaware jury has returned a verdict in favor of Acceleration Bay, LLC and against Activision Blizzard, which Microsoft acquired last October. The jury awarded the plaintiff $23.4M in combined damages, $18M for infringement through provision of the defendant’s World of Warcraft video game; and $5.4M, through its Call of Duty. Two claims, one from each of two patents (surviving from an original complaint in which six patents were asserted), were tried to the jury in a case with a long, complicated history involving, among other things, multiple claim construction disputes over what it means for a gaming network to be “m-regular” and “complete” and a “just the facts” damages theory that apparently limped across the finish line.
May 12, 2024
It’s Not Every Patent Complaint That Name Checks “The Starr Report” AND Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
New Patent Litigation
Recently formed Delaware plaintiff Sandpiper CDN, LLC has launched litigation, suing Alphabet (Google) (2:24-cv-03951) in the Central District of California. Six patents, generally related to content delivery networks and received from Level 3 Communications (acquired in 2017 by Lumen Technologies (f/k/a CenturyLink)), are asserted in the new complaint, which targets Google CDN, which the plaintiff contends that Google “uses and sells . . . via its Cloud CDN and Media CDN offerings”, including in connection with YouTube and YouTube TV. Sandpiper CDN pleads that it is “[n]amed after, and in homage to, the company that originally pioneered and developed CDN technologies in the 1990’s”, Sandpiper Networks.
May 12, 2024
WSOU Files Against Cisco in East Texas as West Texas Actions Continue to Sputter
New Patent Litigation
Since March 2020, WSOU Investments, LLC (d/b/a Brazos Licensing and Development) has been litigating patents from a large portfolio received from Nokia (including Alcatel-Lucent) in batches of cases filed separately against AMD (Xilinx), Huawei, ZTE, Microsoft, Dell (including EMC and VMware, the latter spun out and then later acquired by Broadcom), Alphabet (Google), HP Enterprise (HPE), Juniper Networks, F5 Networks, NEC, OnePlus, Canon, TP-Link, Arista Networks, Salesforce, Cisco, and NETGEAR—in that rough order. Litigation remains active against Arista, Cisco, Dell, F5, Google, Salesforce, and VMware, WSOU this past week suing Cisco (2:24-cv-00332) for a second time, targeting the provision of various networking products and services, ranging from optical line systems to switching platforms, with five patents.
May 11, 2024
Ad-Hoc Wireless Networking at Issue in SCR Networks’s Latest Complaint
New Patent Litigation
Following the October 2022 dismissal of its first and only patent case, filed against TP-Link in the Central District of California, SCR Networks LLC has sued Cisco (2:24-cv-00349), this time in the Eastern District of Texas. The plaintiff asserts a single patent generally related to ad-hoc wireless networking, with Cisco accused of infringement through the provision of routers that implement Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) using the OSPFv3 routing protocol.
May 10, 2024
Empire IP Expands Networking Campaign with Suit Against Juniper Networks
New Patent Litigation
Juniper Networks (1:24-cv-01935) is the latest defendant to be added to the sole litigation campaign of Fleet Connect Solutions LLC (FCS), a plaintiff associated with Texas monetization firm Empire IP LLC. In the new Northern District of Georgia complaint, FCS asserts seven wireless communications patents, each received from Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV). Juniper Networks is accused of infringement over a wide array of networking products (e.g., access points, firewalls, and routers) that support Bluetooth, IEEE 802.11ac/b/n, and LTE connectivity.
May 10, 2024
IPR and EPR Rulings Imperil Recent East Texas Verdicts in Favor of G+ Communications
In Case You Missed It, TPLF
In mid-April, an Eastern District of Texas jury returned a verdict awarding G+ Communications LLC $142M in a damages retrial against Samsung before Chief Judge Rodney Gilstrap: $61M for the infringement of one former ZTE patent and $81M of another. Now, in an inter partes review (IPR) triggered by a petition filed by Samsung based on the disclosure of an LG Electronics (LGE) patent, the PTAB has canceled a set of claims from that second patent that includes claim 20, the one found infringed by the East Texas jury. In parallel, the Patent Office, also last week, in an ex parte reexamination (EPR) found the infringed claims of the second patent to be obvious on multiple grounds, including a single-reference challenge based on an application associated with another LGE patent.
May 6, 2024
Yet Another New Mexico Plaintiff Launches Patent Litigation
New Patent Litigation
New Mexico entity Lab Technology LLC has filed separate Eastern District of Texas cases against Samsung (2:24-cv-00324) and Verizon (2:24-cv-00323). Against Samsung the plaintiff asserts five patents apparently received from TP Lab, Inc., three of which are also in suit against Verizon. One of those three patents asserted against both Samsung and Verizon generally relates to “refreshing” a phone’s display with a location-specific “communication service”. Lab Technology is not the first plaintiff to accuse Samsung of infringing that patent, here targeting provision of the Galaxy Watch6 where the prior lawsuit, dismissed with prejudice in January 2019, focused on Samsung smartphones.
May 3, 2024