Isix IP LLC, identifying itself as a
subsidiary of monetization firm Aequitas Technologies LLC, has filed suit
against IBM (
6:22-cv-00201), alleging infringing of a single patent that the
plaintiff characterizes as claiming "a system for integrating
date among heterogenous systems". Isix IP pleads that
Isix (f/k/a DARC), "a predecessor in
interest" of the patent licensed its software to
"companies in various industries", with "deepest
market penetration . . . in the cruise line industry". The new
Western District of Texas complaint targets the IBM Application
Integration Suite, which Isix IP alleges "destroyed Isix's
market share".
The patent (6,308,178) issued to DARC in October 2001 with
estimated priority in October 1999. Now expired, the patent lists
multiple named inventors, including Brian Connolly, who identifies
himself on social media as having held positions with DARC since
leaving Oracle in 1992, most recently (since 2003)
as president. In December
