Intelectual Property (IP)

IP Edge Denied Stay of Mandate Pending Potential SCOTUS Bid; Director Review Granted Regarding Indemnification Agreement

It was a rather light district court week for patent filings, with just 24 new cases filed last week—we are starting to see the effects of a depressed rate of filing from IP Edge in the overall numbers (link behind paywall). The week also saw an average number of Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) filings, all inter partes reviews (IPRs).

A number of IP Edge pending disputes settled last week; it looks like the Bell Semiconductor/Hilco Capital suit against seemingly the entire semiconductor industry has started to settle out, with some big names dismissing cases pursuant to settlement, including Kioxia, Nvidia, Micron, and many others—whether pursuant to a bulk license through RPX or some other mechanism is unknown, but it’s likely to be some group deal for so many parties to settle at the same general time in such a far-ranging dispute. Some Jeff Gross entities settled, but no more than usual; Google dropped a suit with Fortress vehicle Jawbone, but it looks like a refiling; and the same week Zoom laid off 1,300 employees it was tagged in another suit, this time by AK Meeting IP LLC, as funded/controlled by the Pueblo Nuevo LLC group, on a couple of patents; and Target, BestBuy, and other retailers were targeted in scattered suits. Lastly, Oracle filed what looks like a sealed DJ action against longtime litigant Vilox Technologies LLC on a few patents.

Qualcomm and Samsung filed IPRs against the Intel-originated Daedalus Prime portfolio (as run by Ed Gomez) this week, in a surprise to no one; Amazon filed IPRs against Jawbone, the Fortress IP entity that is asserting patents from the now-defunct speaker company; Apple filed IPRs against the Magnetar Capital- backed Speir Technologies.

IP Edge Asks, is Denied by Federal Circuit for Stay of ‘Adversary’ Chief Judge Connolly’s Order in Light of Desire to Seek Supreme Court Review: The Federal Circuit denied an appeal for en banc review of their earlier panel denial of a writ of mandamus from Nimitz Technologies, LLC, an IP Edge affiliate. Recall that Judge Connolly, in a blistering 80-page order after Nimitz sought mandamus, laid out his reasoning behind enforcing a litigation funding disclosure requirement, and what it had revealed regarding dozens of filings in his court by various subsidiaries tied to IP Edge, though not disclosed as such. IP Edge most recently sought, and was denied a stay of the mandate in light of their professed desire for Supreme Court review. See Nimitz Technologies LLC’s Motion to Stay Mandate, Nimitz Techs. LLC v. Bloomberg et al, No. 23-103, ECF 59 (Feb. 2, 2023; Order, Nimitz Techs. LLC v. Bloomberg et al, No. 23-103, ECF 62 (Feb. 7, 2023). It’s worth noting that IP Edge has apparently been pitching their litigation activity to litigation funders and investors via private equity fund manager Tecumseh Alternatives, LLC, per publicly available materials from their website.

 Netlist’s Director Review Motion for Additional Discovery Granted on Indemnification Agreement: In a case recently granted USPTO director review, the Fortress IP-backed Netlist earned reversal, where district court discovery and commentary tended to show there existed a potentially relevant indemnification agreement related to a potential time bar related to a decade-old assertion.  The case is Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. v. Netlist, Inc. (an entity backed and funded by Fortress IP), IPR2022-00615, and involves a complicated fact pattern of a divested product, district court complaint disclosures and timing.

                            PTAB (25)

Case Number Action Owner Petitioner Patent
PGR2023-00017 Filed UPL Ltd. Syngenta Crop Protection AG 11445727
IPR2023-00538 Filed Amsted Rail Company, Inc. [Amsted Industries Incorporated] Hum Industrial Technology, Inc. 9365223
IPR2023-00553 Filed Zilkr Cloud Technologies LLC
Shango Corp LLC
Orisha Holdings LLC
Cisco Systems, Inc. 9210254
IPR2023-00534 Filed Daedalus Prime LLC [Daedalus Group LLC] Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 10319812
IPR2023-00550 Filed Daedalus Prime LLC [Daedalus Group LLC] Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Samsung Electronics America, Inc.
Qualcomm, Inc.
8775833
IPR2023-00548 Filed Greenthread, LLC Intel Corporation 8421195
IPR2023-00458 Filed Fortinet, Inc. Netskope, Inc. 9280678
IPR2023-00484 Filed Polaris PowerLED Technologies, LLC [Microchip Technology Incorporated] Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Samsung Electronics America, Inc.
8217887
IPR2023-00559 Filed Jawbone Innovations LLC Amazon.com, Inc 8503691
IPR2023-00478 Filed ACERTA PHARMA B.V [Astrazeneca PLC] Sandoz, Inc. 10272083
IPR2023-00562 Filed Daedalus Prime LLC [Daedalus Group LLC] Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 10727183
IPR2023-00456 Filed Fortinet, Inc. Netskope, Inc. 11036856
IPR2023-00535 Filed Daedalus Prime LLC [Daedalus Group LLC] Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 10319812
IPR2023-00541 Filed Greenthread, LLC Intel Corporation 9190502
IPR2023-00476 Filed 138 East LCD Advancements Limited [Vector Capital Corporation] Chongqing HKC Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd 7335913
IPR2023-00547 Filed Daedalus Prime LLC

[Daedalus Group LLC]

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Samsung Electronics America, Inc.
Qualcomm, Inc.
10705588
IPR2023-00543 Filed Speir Technologies Ltd. [Atlantic IP Services Limited] Apple Inc 7765399
IPR2023-00542 Filed Speir Technologies Ltd. [Atlantic IP Services Limited] Apple Inc 7765399
IPR2023-00457 Filed Fortinet, Inc. Netskope, Inc. 9231968
IPR2023-00552 Filed Greenthread, LLC Intel Corporation 11121222
IPR2023-00475 Filed 138 East LCD Advancements Limited [Vector Capital Corporation] Chongqing HKC Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd 7116390
IPR2023-00459 Filed Fortinet, Inc. Netskope, Inc. 10084825
IPR2023-00195 Filed Sentient Sensors LLC Xilinx, Inc 6938177
IPR2023-00563 Filed Daedalus Prime LLC

[Daedalus Group LLC]

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 10727183
IPR2023-00561 Filed Jawbone Innovations LLC Amazon.com, Inc 8503691
IPR2022-00367 Instituted XR Communications LLC Apple Inc
HP, Inc.
Amazon.com, Inc
Amazon.com Services, LLC
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
10715235
IPR2022-01351 Instituted Winview Inc. [Engine Gaming & Media, Inc.] DraftKings, Inc. 9878243
IPR2022-01217 Instituted Charge Fusion Technologies, LLC Tesla, Inc. 10998753
IPR2022-01188 Instituted Carolyn W. Hafeman Google LLC
Microsoft Corporation
10325122
IPR2022-01362 Instituted XR Communications LLC Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Samsung Electronics America, Inc.
Google LLC
10715235
IPR2021-00044 Final Written Decision Advanced Bionics AG [Sonova Holding AG] Med-El Elektromedizinische Gerate Ges.m.b.H. 8155746
IPR2020-01016 Final Written Decision Advanced Bionics AG [Sonova Holding AG] Med-El Elektromedizinische Gerate Ges.m.b.H. 8155746
IPR2021-01333 Final Written Decision Nant Holdings IP, LLC [NantWorks, LLC] Bank of America, N.A. 7899252

                      District Court (24)

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