Ricoh Company Limited has filed a Delaware
against Zoom Communications (1:25-cv-01095), asserting seven patents
broadly directed to various aspects of videoconferencing
technology. The plaintiff targets the provision of its
"cloud-based communication and collaboration products and
services", including "Zoom Meetings, Zoom Rooms, Zoom
Sessions, Zoom Webinars, Zoom Whiteboard, and Zoom Cloud
Recording", pleading that the alleged infringement has been
willful. Ricoh points to a notice letter to Zoom as early as April
2024, as well as Zoom's alleged citation to Ricoh's patents
in its own prosecution activity.
Ricoh pleads that the asserted patents (10,904,487; 10,909,059; 10,931,917; 11,256,454; 11,289,093; 11,516,278; 11,546,548) grew out of work on its
"groundbreaking development of a portable, cloud-based video
conferencing system—the Ricoh Unified Communication System
(UCS), launched in 2011", which purportedly "serves as a
milestone in the evolution of modern video
