Patent Filings Roundup: Cal Tech Sues Samsung After $1 Billion Apple Verdict; Joao Entity Sues UT’s Health System; Intel Loses Six Against Bill Chu’s Acqis LLC

Another 82 district court terminations this week was again high, though careful analysis has revealed that many of those cases were terminated voluntarily and refiled elsewhere. The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) saw just 22 inter partes reviews (IPRs) this week; a few parties walked away from their patents, including Litl LLC [TRI Ventures, Inc.], after a challenge by Microsoft. District court was up this week to 94 patent filings, and the year looks poised to end with filings up substantially over years past. The Board again exercised its Fintiv muscles in an IPR with a case pending in the International Trade Commission (ITC), this one an entity funded by Techquity Captial Management. Other semiconductor patents asserted by NPEs went down on Final Written Decision in IPR, including one of the patents asserted by Vector Capital’s Monterey Research; it’s worth noting that the semiconductor companies have collectively spent a lot of time before the Board this year after the increase in NPE suits there this year.

A few highlights:

Billion-Dollar Cal Tech Verdict Goes Down the Line: After winning more than $1 billion in damages against Apple, Cal Tech professors repped by Irell Manella have moved on and sued Apple’s next largest competitor, Samsung, on the same patents and the same theory.

Joao Entity Files against UT Health System: Raymond Anthony Joao’s Decapolis Systems has quickly shot up the ranks of the most litigious this year, adding 26 late in 2021 in a suit on two patents related to providing healthcare information. Most recently, they sued the University of Texas’ statewide university healthcare system. The suit is on two patents, 7,464,040 and 7490,048.

Intel Loses Tranche of IPRs on Institution: The Board, exercising their discretion under Section 325(d), denied at least six IPRs filed against Bill Chu’s Acqis LLC entity, finding that references raised in the information disclosure statement as well as prosecution history counseled toward denial. The patents are related to general data security methods on chips and have been used to sue 21 defendants to date, many still pending

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