Context: GG Technologies, Inc., doing business as StayTouch, is a Santa Monica company behind a contact exchange app of the same name. In April, it sued Apple in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas (Case No. 6:26-cv-00237) over U.S. Patent No. 12,022,369 (“Method and system for proximity-based contact transfer”). It also filed a request for a United States International Trade Commission (ITC) investigation (No. 337-TA-1520) (August 28, 2026 USITC notice). The Western District of Texas case has been stayed since September 15, 2026, pending the ITC investigation. Apple faces a similar pairing of court and ITC cases from BASF spin-off trinamiX over face recognition, which started in the Western District of Texas (September 7, 2026 ip fray article) and later expanded to the UPC and the ITC (October 7, 2026 ip fray article).
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Court and counsel
Court: United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, Waco Division, Judge Leon Schydlower.
Counsel for StayTouch: Pakis, Giotes, Page & Burleson’s David N. Deaconson and BEW LLC’s Benjamin E. Weed.