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After Counterclaim Hammer Dropped on Ascend Innovation, ThinkLogix Sues VTech
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Last September, ThinkLogix, LLC filed its first case, suing Crestron Electronics (4:23-cv-00844) in the Eastern District of Texas over six from a portfolio of roughly 100 former Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV) patent assets. In response, Crestron filed counterclaims that also named Ascend Innovation Management, LLC (AIM); Ascend IP, LLC; and Mind Fusion, LLC as parties to the litigation, Crestron pleading that the veteran IV figures behind these entities structured them “as part of a basically unfair device to achieve an inequitable result” and that ThinkLogix “does not have sufficient capital to operate its business, including patent maintenance fees and satisfying any liabilities that ThinkLogix may incur during litigation from adverse decisions”. The suit against Crestron ended in a dismissal with prejudice before any response from ThinkLogix—or from the other third-party counterclaim defendants. Last month, ThinkLogix moved on, suing VTech (6:24-cv-00206), this time in the Western District of Texas.
May 17, 2024
Delaware Jury Awards IPA Technologies $242M in Trial over Former SRI International Patent
Patent Litigation Feature
This past week, IPA Technologies Inc. successfully convinced a Delaware jury that Microsoft has infringed three claims from a single patent generally related to speech-based control over electronic resources through the provision of the Cortana digital assistant. The jury returned a verdict indicating that Microsoft failed to prove those claims anticipated by certain prior art (“the WARREN implementation of the RETSINA system”) and awarding $242M in damages. Meanwhile, district court litigation against Alphabet (Google) remains stayed to await IPA’s appeals from adverse final written decisions handed down in remand PTAB proceedings.
May 12, 2024
Apparently Backed by an Unnamed Funder, SoundClear Technologies Launches Litigation
New Patent Litigation, TPLF
In separate Eastern District of Virginia complaints, SoundClear Technologies LLC has accused Alphabet (Google) (1:24-cv-00729) and Amazon (Amazon Web Services) (1:24-cv-00728) of infringing three patents originally developed at JVCKenwood. The Virginia plaintiff targets the provision of the defendants’ respective voice assistants and related hardware and software products. At issue are features related to noise reduction, speech detection/processing, and volume control.
May 4, 2024
New Defendants Tagged in FlickIntelligence’s AR and VR Campaign
New Patent Litigation
So far in April, FlickIntelligence, LLC, an entity associated with Ortiz & Lopez PLLC, has added suits against EON Reality (8:24-cv-00841) in the Central District of California and HTC (HTC America) (5:24-cv-02201) in the Northern District of California. The sole asserted patent generally relates to “displaying additional information about a scene element displayed in a frame of video content”. HTC is accused of infringement through the provision of the VIVE XR Elite headset, while EON Reality is accused over the EON-XR platform.
April 26, 2024
Panasonic Reorg Prompts DJ Action in the Northern District of California
New Patent Litigation, TPLF
Following an apparent reorganization, Panasonic Entertainment & Communication (PEC), now a subsidiary of Panasonic Holdings, has filed a new complaint asking the Northern District of California for declaratory judgments of noninfringement of four patents generally related to in-camera systems for filtering and correcting distortions. Optimum Imaging Technologies LLC (OIT) asserted the four patents against Panasonic in an October 2023 complaint filed in the Eastern District of Texas and targeting the provision of certain cameras and lenses. PEC pleads that OIT has not yet served Panasonic with the West Texas complaint, although Optimum has apparently “indicated that it will seek to serve Panasonic Corporation through the Hague Convention”.
April 25, 2024
Dell Next Up for Atlantic IP’s Eireog; Amazon, for Its Croga
New Patent Litigation
Plaintiffs associated with Dublin-based monetization firm Atlantic IP Services Limited continue to file new cases, week after week. Eireog Innovations Limited hit Dell (1:26-cv-00416) in the Western District of Texas over four former NXP patents last week, while Croga Innovations Limited sued Amazon (Amazon Web Services) (1:24-cv-00398) in the same district over a single former L3Harris patent. The Dell complaint focuses on the provision of a wide variety of products, including laptops, desktops, and servers, allegedly “using Intel-based CPUs (Haswell-based architecture and newer)”; the Amazon complaint, of the AWS VPC (Virtual Private cloud), AWS EC2, and AWS Network Firewall products.
April 20, 2024
Eireog Innovations Follows Up Campaign Launch by Suing Lenovo
New Patent Litigation
Eireog Innovations Limited has followed up its litigation debut last week—with separate Eastern District of Texas suits against Cisco, Fortinet, IBM, and Palo Alto Networks—by filing a case against Lenovo (2:24-cv-00239) in the same district. The plaintiff asserts the same four patents, again targeting the provision of products, this time ranging from laptops to servers, that incorporate certain AMD and Intel-based CPUs. This campaign appears to be at least the ninth from an Atlantic IP Services Limited plaintiff to hit Lenovo and/or its subsidiary Motorola Mobility.
April 12, 2024
Mullen Industries Targets AR and VR Technologies in Second Campaign
New Patent Litigation
Inventor-controlled plaintiff Mullen Industries LLC has launched a second litigation campaign, suing Meta Platforms (f/k/a Facebook) (1:24-cv-00354) in the Western District of Texas. The 11 patents-in-suit are described by the plaintiff as “directed to technological advancements and safety improvements in regards to augmented reality (‘AR’) and virtual reality (‘VR’) systems”, with Meta Platforms accused of infringement through the provision of certain Oculus- and Quest-series headsets, as well as related software products (i.e., First Encounters, First Steps, First Hand, First Contact, and Horizon Worlds).
April 4, 2024
Microsoft Brings Two Disputes with Individual Inventor to Federal Court
New Patent Litigation
Microsoft (2:24-cv-00448) has filed a Western District of Washington case against individual inventor ATM Shafiqul Khalid and his Xencare Software, Inc., seeking declaratory judgments of noninfringement of three patents, two generally related to a “mini-cloud system for enabling user subscription in a residential environment” and another to running “computer software applications” based on a “rule table”. Microsoft alleges that there is an actual and immediate dispute existing between the parties due to “substantial and substantive allegations of patent infringement by Microsoft’s Windows operating system and Xbox consoles and gaming services made in expert reports served by Defendants in Khalid v. Microsoft Corp.”—a state court action filed before the King County Superior Court.
April 3, 2024
Powermat Sues Belkin for a Second Time
New Patent Litigation
In its wireless charging litigation, Powermat Technologies, Ltd. has sued former licensee Hon Hai Precision Industry (Belkin) (2:24-cv-02595) for a second time, this time in the Central District of California. Per the new complaint, Belkin terminated a 2015 patent license agreement with Powermat in 2017, prompting Powermat to file a 2019 suit in the Southern District of New York that settled in 2020. Now, Powermat alleges infringement of five inductive power transmission patents through the provision of a long list of wireless charging products.
March 30, 2024