ArticleVideoLabs Turns To The ITCThe day after VideoLabs, Inc. filed Western District of Texas suits against Acer, ASUSTek, Lenovo (Motorola Mobility) and Micro-Star International...United StatesIntellectual PropertyRPX Corporation
ArticleStaton Techiya Files Lengthy And Revealing Disclosures After Assignment To Judge ConnollyThis past July, Staton Techiya, LLC filed a pair of Delaware cases against Samsung (Harman International Industries, Harman-Kardon) targeting the provision of automobile audio systems and earbudsUnited StatesIntellectual PropertyRPX Corporation
ArticlePurported "Industry Cast-Out" Sues SamsungRadian Memory Systems LLC (RMS), a plaintiff tied to Fortress Investment Group LLC, has sued Samsung (2:24-cv-01073) over the provision of solid state drives and related products that support Zoned Namespaces (ZNS) technology. United StatesIntellectual PropertyRPX Corporation
ArticleVideo Surveillance Campaign Records Round Of Eastern District Of Texas ComplaintsAnadex Data Communications LLC, an Equitable IP Corporation plaintiff, has filed separate Eastern District of Texas cases against AT&T (4:25-cv-00317), Charter Communications (Spectrum Management) (4:25-cv-00321)...United StatesIntellectual PropertyRPX Corporation
ArticleCelluPlex Files More Suits Targeting Bluetooth Cellphone ConnectionsThis past June, CelluPlex LLC opened up a litigation campaign over a single patent generally related to an "interconnect device for coupling a cellular telephone to at least one wired telephone" by filing separate Eastern District of Texas suits...United StatesIntellectual PropertyRPX Corporation
ArticleCaltech Files Original Complaint Against Microsoft, Amended Complaints Against Dell, HPLate last week, Caltech filed three new complaints in the litigation campaign that resulted in an infringement verdict awarding $1.1B in damages—$837.8M against Apple and $270.2M against Broadcom—in January 2020.United StatesIntellectual PropertyRPX Corporation
ArticleTrial Prep Well Underway In Cases Against Earlier Wireless Carrier Defendants, Headwater Research Hits AmazonHeadwater Research LLC's separate Eastern District of Texas cases against Deutsche Telekom (Sprint, T-Mobile) and Verizon (Verizon Wireless) are set for trial this week. United StatesIntellectual PropertyRPX Corporation
ArticleBig June Wave Of Cases In Wireless Networking Campaign Sees Several Follow-On FilingsThe June wave arrives as the prior, 2017 wave of litigation from the same plaintiff comes back to life at the conclusion of a set of inter partes reviews (IPRs) of three patents asserted previously...United StatesIntellectual PropertyRPX Corporation
ArticleJudge Albright "Goes Too Far" By Pushing Venue Rulings After Fact Discovery, Holds Federal CircuitThe Federal Circuit has issued another rebuke against Western District of Texas Judge Alan D. Albright over his approach to transfer timing.United StatesIntellectual PropertyRPX Corporation
ArticleQPRC's Harbor Island Files First SuitHarbor Island Dynamic LLC (HID), a subsidiary of Quest Patent Research Corporation (QPRC), has filed its first litigation, suing Samsung (2:24-cv-00140) in the Eastern District of Texas. United StatesIntellectual PropertyRPX Corporation
ArticleFeedback Tools In The Crosshairs Of Recent IP Edge CampaignSavannah Licensing LLC, an apparent IP Edge LLC plaintiff, has launched its first litigation.United StatesIntellectual PropertyRPX Corporation
ArticleThose Additional Georgia LLCs Holding Former IV Patents Go After Companies With Public WebsitesIn early February, RPX covered the recordation of the assignment of multiple patent portfolios from Intellectual Ventures LLC...United StatesIntellectual PropertyRPX Corporation
ArticleMore IP Edge Litigation Launched Over Former Empire Technology Patents, This Time Targeting Infrastructure ProductsThese filings put the number of litigation campaigns that entities associated with IP Edge have begun over patents picked up from Empire Technology at 12.United StatesIntellectual PropertyRPX Corporation
ArticleIkorongo Plaintiffs Sue Uber As Prior Defendants Hope For A Convenience Transfer Out Of West TexasConcert Technology Corporation subsidiaries Ikorongo Technology, LLC (as patent owner except in certain Texas counties) and Ikorongo Texas, LLC (as patent owner in those Texas counties) have sued Uber Technologies ...United StatesIntellectual PropertyRPX Corporation
ArticleQ1 Data Update: The New Year Brings Greater Clarity As The Pendulum Swings BackThe end of 2017 left the patent ecosystem at a crossroads, with pending judicial rulings, new strategies by plaintiffs and defendants, market realignments, and the possibility of further reform...United StatesIntellectual PropertyRPX Corporation
ArticleCampaign Over Data Storage Patent Launched By Rabicoff-Repped PlaintiffThe asserted patent (10,095,426) issued in October 2018 to named inventors Ronald G. Benson and Rod Brittner. It belongs to a family of six with earliest estimated priority in March 2007, based on the filing of a provisional application. United StatesIntellectual PropertyRPX Corporation
ArticleDOJ Clears University Technology Licensing Program, One Member Of Which Separately Launches Litigation Over "Cobots"On January 13, 2021, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a favorable business review letter at the request of the nascent University Technology Licensing Program (UTLP),...United StatesIntellectual PropertyRPX Corporation
ArticleCharles Schwab DJs A Seemingly Funded Blaze MobileAttaching an October 7, 2024 letter signed by Michelle Fisher as the CEO of Blaze Mobile Technologies LLC (BMT), Charles Schwab has asked the Northern District of California for declaratory judgments...United StatesIntellectual PropertyRPX Corporation
ArticleVidal Reinstates Sanctioned PTAB Petitioners In VLSI IPRs, Hits One With Fees And CostsIn the final months of 2022, USPTO Director Kathi Vidal issued an increasingly severe set of sanctions over alleged gamesmanship before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)—but she has now walked back some of those punishments. United StatesIntellectual PropertyRPX Corporation
ArticleUPC Issues First-Ever UK InjunctionThe Unified Patent Court (UPC) has upended Europe's patent litigation landscape since its launch nearly two years ago.European UnionIntellectual PropertyRPX Corporation