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Cine Graphic Solutions LLC is a patent-holding entity with no apparent operating business. Unified Patents, which ran prior-art (PATROLL) contests against three of its patents, describes it as an NPE and a subsidiary of Strategic Intellectual Solutions, LLC. The patents at issue list Douglas G. Richardson as inventor. I could not verify a headquarters address, incorporation date, employee count, or revenue from a reliable public source; the entity appears to be a private, litigation-only shell, and no parent beyond Strategic Intellectual Solutions was identified in the sources reviewed.
Products / operations: None identified. The company does not appear to sell or operate anything. Its only visible assets are a small patent portfolio covering the delivery of animation in electronic communications — specifically emails and websites. The asserted patents are U.S. 7,388,587, U.S. 7,629,977 ("Method for Embedding Animation"), and U.S. 8,035,644. Unified Patents reported that the '644 patent has since been transferred out of Cine Graphic Solutions to inventor Douglas G. Richardson.
Litigation posture: Cine Graphic Solutions is a pure plaintiff-side litigant — 2 tracked cases as plaintiff, 0 as defendant. That one-directional pattern, combined with the absence of products and third-party NPE characterization, is consistent with a patent assertion entity monetizing an acquired portfolio rather than an operating company defending itself. Venues in the tracked data are the Southern District of New York and the Northern District of Illinois — neither is an Eastern District of Texas cluster, though the N.D. Illinois filing is a traditional NPE-friendly forum.
Notable cases: The two tracked matters are Cine Graphic Solutions LLC v. FUJIFILM Holdings America Corp. et al. (S.D.N.Y., filed 2021, docket 1:21-cv-07917, asserting the '587, '977, and '644 patents against FUJIFILM Holdings America and Fujifilm North America) and the company's earlier N.D. Illinois suit, Cine Graphic Solutions LLC v. Motorola Mobility LLC (1:21-cv-01840, filed April 2021, now closed). Unified Patents' 2021–2023 crowdsourcing activity states the same animation patents were asserted against Motorola, Samsung, and Fujifilm; those third-party campaigns, not any commercial activity, are the main external context for this entity.
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Cine Graphic Solutions LLC sued FUJIFILM Holdings America Corp. and Fujifilm North America Corp. in S.D.N.Y., docket 1:21-cv-07917. The narrative reports early-stage activity in late 2021, as part of the 2021–2022 NPE wave asserting US 8,035,644 and sibling patents US 7,388,587 and US 7,629,977, but does not verify the outcome.
Cine Graphic Solutions LLC filed suit in N.D. Ill., docket 1:21-cv-01840, in 2021. The narrative says the defendant was likely a Motorola entity but did not confirm the full name; it is part of the Cine Graphic Solutions wave asserting US 8,035,644 and sibling patents US 7,388,587 and US 7,629,977.