Linksmart Wireless Technology, LLC began its sole
litigation campaign in 2008, suing multiple companies over one
patent generally related to automatic, user-specific redirection.
At issue were the defendants' products and systems for
providing Internet access in hotspots and hospitality
(i.e., hotel) settings. Ten years later, the same patent
having emerged from reissue proceedings last summer, the NPE has
now taken aim at two purveyors of in-flight entertainment
systems—Gogo (8:18-cv-00654)
and Panasonic (Panasonic
Avionics) (8:18-cv-00662)—separately suing the
airlines that use them: for
Gogo, AeroMexico (2:18-cv-03335),
Air Canada (2:18-cv-03337), Air
France-KLM (2:18-cv-03341), Alaska
Air (2:18-cv-03345), American
Airlines (2:18-cv-03349), British
Airways (2:18-cv-03352), Delta Air
Lines (2:18-cv-03354), United
Continental Holdings (2:18-cv-03348); and for
Panasonic Avionics, Southwest
Airlines (8:18-cv-00660), The Emirates
Group (2:18-cv-03353), and Westjet
