In February 2022, Mullen Industries LLC sued
Apple in the Western District of Texas over the
provision of devices (e.g., Apple Watches, iPhones, iPads,
and iPods) or services (e.g., iCloud) that support the
Apple Maps or Find My service, as well as Apple Watches that
support features for answering phone calls. That case ended last
October; now Mullen Industries has turned to
Samsung (2:24-cv-00049) over a superset of the same
patents, all generally related to interactions between two mobile
devices. Samsung is targeted over the provision of smartphones,
smartwatches, and tablets.
More particularly, the patents-in-suit broadly concern using a
wireless device to track the location of another wireless device
(8,354,575; 9,204,283; 9,635,540; 11,096,039; 11,109,218; 11,122,418; 11,234,117; 11,246,024) or a watch that provides
notification of an incoming call to a separate mobile device (11,190,633).The former seven-patent family has
issue dates ranging from February
