Defendant
4 cases as defendant.
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AdGear Technologies Inc. ("AdGear") is a digital advertising technology company headquartered at 481 Viger St W, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, with a second office historically in Toronto. Sources differ on founding: Wikipedia credits founders Yves Poiré, Vlad Stesin, and Bosko Milekic in 2008, while Crunchbase/Mergr and Samsung's own corporate filings date the entity to 2010. It was acquired by Samsung Electronics on June 16, 2016 (reported deal value roughly $50 million or less) and operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Canada Inc.; its technology is now marketed within Samsung's ads business. It is small — Crunchbase lists a headcount band of 11–50.
Products and operations. AdGear was an independent, full-stack programmatic advertising vendor before the acquisition, selling software and services to advertisers, media agencies, and publishers, in turnkey or white-label mode. Its stack included a demand-side platform (AdGear Trader), a data-management platform, advertiser- and publisher-side ad servers, real-time bidding and ad-exchange technology, cross-channel attribution measurement, targeting and retargeting tools, plus HTML5 creative support and iOS/Android SDKs. Named customers included the Government of Canada, La Presse (LaPresse+ tablet edition), and the Toronto Star's Star Touch app. It is an operating company, not a patent-assertion entity, and the case data show no patents asserted by it.
Patent-litigation posture. AdGear appears in the database only as a defendant (4 tracked entries, 0 as plaintiff) — all four are the same suit, AlmondNet, Inc. et al. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. et al., filed August 26, 2021 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, Waco Division before Judge Alan D. Albright. This is the classic profile of an operating company defending against an NPE. AdGear was sued alongside Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and Samsung Electronics America, Inc.; the case was later transferred to the Northern District of California (No. 4:22-cv-07515) and stayed there.
Notable context. Plaintiffs AlmondNet, Inc. and Intent IQ, LLC are licensing/assertion entities holding adtech targeting patents, with lead inventor AlmondNet CEO Roy Shkedi. The Samsung complaint asserted a large portfolio (nine patents across families covering targeted advertising, device association via shared LAN, and off-site behavioral targeting). The same plaintiffs ran parallel Waco suits against Roku, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon; a jury awarded AlmondNet roughly $122 million against Amazon in 2024. AdGear's exposure reflects Samsung's AdGear-derived advertising products. No merits determination in the AdGear matter is reflected in the available data.
'307 asserted. Ordered transferred to N.D. Cal. (2022-11-28); re-docketed as N.D. Cal. 4:22-cv-07515. Stayed pending IPRs; reported still pending as of mid-2024.
AlmondNet and Intent IQ sued Samsung and AdGear in W.D. Tex. asserting the ’878 patent, including claims 13–18 and 20 per preliminary invalidity contentions. The case was transferred to N.D. Cal. on November 28, 2022.
AlmondNet and Intent IQ sued Samsung entities and AdGear in W.D. Tex., asserting multiple patents including the '164 patent. The case was transferred to the Northern District of California by sealed order dated Nov. 28, 2022.
Patent infringement action by AlmondNet and Intent IQ against Samsung and related entities in W.D. Tex.; related N.D. Cal. action lists the '198 patent among the asserted patents.