Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Alphabet Inc. is an American multinational technology conglomerate holding company headquartered in Mountain View, California. It was founded on October 2, 2015, as part of a restructuring of Google, which became its largest subsidiary. Alphabet is a publicly traded company on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbols GOOGL and GOOG. As of May 2026, Alphabet has a market capitalization of approximately $4.765 trillion USD, making it one of the world's most valuable companies. The company employs over 190,000 people globally as of late 2025.
Alphabet operates through three primary segments: Google Services, Google Cloud, and Other Bets. Google Services, its largest segment and main revenue driver, includes widely used products such as Google Search, YouTube, Android, Chrome, Google Maps, Gmail, and the Pixel smartphone line. Google Cloud provides enterprise-level cloud computing services, including infrastructure, platform services, and AI solutions. The "Other Bets" segment comprises early-stage and experimental technologies, such as Waymo (autonomous driving), Calico (life sciences), and Wing (drone delivery).
In patent litigation, Alphabet (Google) primarily acts as a defendant. The company has been tracked in one case as a defendant and zero cases as a plaintiff. This posture is typical of a large operating company that is often targeted by patent assertion entities.
The single tracked case, Soundclear Technologies LLC v. Alphabet (Google), was filed in the Virginia Eastern District Court in May 2024. This case indicates Alphabet's role in defending its extensive product and service portfolio against patent infringement claims.
Soundclear Technologies LLC filed an infringement suit against Alphabet (Google) concerning patent 9070374 in the Virginia Eastern District Court. The case is active and remains for the initial filing of this patent, despite a related patent being transferred to another division.