BillSure LLC began its first litigation campaign with a January 8, 2025 complaint against Amazon. A week later, the New Mexico plaintiff has added separate cases against Amdocs (2:25-cv-00031), Sandvine (2:25-cv-00032), and Subex (2:25-cv-00035), also in the Eastern District of Texas, and against Broadcom (VMware) (7:25-cv-00016), in the Western District of Texas. Targeted with a single patent-in-suit is the provision of software products and solutions that support features for monitoring a user's billing data and identifying spending anomalies.
That patent (8,005,457) comprises a family of one and issued in August 2011 with an estimated priority date in September 2005. USPTO assignment records have yet to reflect an assignment of the patent away from Adrian Jones, the sole named inventor, but the plaintiff pleads that it is the "assignee of all right, title and interest" in the patent.
BillSure was formed in New Mexico on October 18, 2024, with little to no information on its management or personnel publicly available. The plaintiff's complaints, filed by Rabicoff Law LLC, conform to a familiar boilerplate and fit a pattern that has been developing over the course of 2024 of recently formed New Mexico plaintiffs launching litigation over patents received shortly after formation (as confirmed by assignment records later made public) and through the representation of Rabicoff Law.
For other examples of plaintiff's with new campaigns that fit this pattern, see RPX's coverage of new campaigns initiated by CelluPlex LLC, ContactWave LLC, Data Resonance LLC, e-Beacon LLC, Encelion LLC, Navog LLC, Payvox LLC, Peregrine Data LLC, Pointwise Ventures LLC, and Querytron Heggem LLC. Recently filed cases from Pointwise Ventures in the District of Delaware have provided insight into the ownership of at least that New Mexico entity; for details, see "Judge Connolly's Standing Orders Unveil Figure Behind at Least One New Mexico Plaintiff" (June 2024).
The new East Texas case have also been assigned to Chief Judge Rodney Gilstrap; the suit against VMware, to District Judge David Counts. 1/15, Amdocs, Sandvine, Subex, Eastern District of Texas, VMware, Western District of Texas.
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