UNILOC 2017 LLC v. GOOGLE LLC
DAN L. BAGATELL, Perkins Coie LLP, Hanover, NH, ar-
gued for defendant-appellee. Also represented by ANDREW
DUFRESNE, SOPEN B. SHAH, Madison, WI; ELIZABETH
BRANN, Paul Hastings LLP, San Diego, CA; ROBERT
UNIKEL, Chicago, IL.
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Before LOURIE, DYK, and HUGHES, Circuit Judges.
DYK, Circuit Judge.
Uniloc 2017 LLC (“Uniloc 2017”) brought multiple pa-
tent infringement suits against Google LLC in the Eastern
District of Texas. Uniloc 2017 alleged that various Google
products infringed a variety of patents directed to innova-
tions in multimedia content delivery (Nos. 6,628,712,
6,952,450, 7,012,960, and 8,407,609), IT security
(Nos. 8,949,954 and 9,564,952), high-resolution imaging
(No. 6,349,154), network connectivity (No. 8,194,632),
video conferencing (No. 6,473,114), and image and text
searching (Nos. 6,253,201 and 6,366,908). Those suits
were later transferred to the Northern District of Califor-
nia. Google moved to dismiss the actions, alleging
Uniloc 2017 lacked standing, and thus the court lacked
subject matter jurisdiction. Google’s theory was that
Uniloc 2017 lacked standing because it lacked the right to
exclude, its predecessors having granted Fortress Credit
Co. LLC a license and an unfettered right to sublicense to
the asserted patents as part of a financing arrangement.
Uniloc 2017 argued that its predecessors had not
granted such a license to Fortress and, even if they had, the
license would not eliminate Uniloc 2017’s standing.
Uniloc 2017 further argued that, in any event, any license
had been eliminated by a Termination Agreement executed
between Uniloc 2017’s predecessors and Fortress before
these suits commenced. The district court granted Google’s
motion to dismiss, finding that a license had been granted;
that the license survived the Termination Agreement; and
Case: 21-1498 Document: 52 Page: 2 Filed: 11/04/2022