Patent Filings Roundup: Latest Mohan Rao Vehicle Semiconductor Patents Challenged; Competitor Suits Dominate

It was a relatively average week for patent filings, with 58 district court complaints and 19 new Patent Trial and Appeal Board petitions filed—that’s a tad low—all inter partes reviews (IPRs). There were more fake meat IPRs filed against Impossible Foods by Motif Foodworks; no discretionary denials last week; lots of frequent litigants saw IPRs instituted against asserted patents this week; unknown Qualserve Solutions LLC sued Samsung on what appears to be standard-essential LTE networking functions, though it’s unclear how handsets would exactly infringe; AGIS and Verizon appear to have settled; Speir Technologies [Magentar Capital] went down the line and hit TCL (after reportedly offering a five-year RPX license to settle all Magnetar suits with their members).

Latest Asserted Mohan Rao Patents Challenged

Dell filed petitions against Greenthread LLC, an LLC part-owned by frequent litigant-inventor G.R. Mohan Rao and funded by a relatively new litigation funder; the original assignment turned over 14 semiconductor patents to Greenthread, at least some of which have been asserted, some early against Samsung, Sony, and now five against Dell and Intel in Texas; the portfolio has been split and patents have been put in to at least two other litigation vehicles, Vervain, LLC and Flash-Control, LLC; Vervain sued Micron and Western Digital on memory on four patents, all of which have pending IPR challenges from Micron at the Board; Flash-Control, which was associated with Brian Yates, had sued Micron, Kingston, Intel, and ADATA Technology as far back as 2016, with cases (and IPRs) there continuing on.

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