One IP Edge Plaintiff Kicks Off Another Campaign From A Familiar Source, As Second Clears Alice Hurdle

As part of the monetization firm's end-of-November sprint, apparent IP Edge LLC plaintiff Jade Licensing LLC filed a Western District of Texas suit against Broadcom (Brocade Communications Systems) (6:21-cv-01239) over a single patent originally issuing to Huawei. Jade Licensing accuses Brocade of infringing the optical communications patent through the provision of optical transceiver modules. Its new case follows on the heels of a magistrate judge's report and recommendation that suggests that another IP Edge plaintiff, well into a larger campaign over another patent acquired from the same source, is on its way to defeating an Alice challenge.

IP Edge acquired the patent-in-suit (8,509,622) in January 2021 as part of a 40-plus asset transaction from Huawei to Mason Licensing LLC, one of IP Edge's many Texas LLCs. Mason Licensing transferred it in mid-November to Jade. (USPTO metadata identifies the assignor of the '622 patent as Magnolia Licensing LLC, another IP