IOT Innovations LLC v. Alphabet Inc.
Open- Docket:
- 1:23-cv-09902
- Filed:
- 2023-12-18
Patents:7593428
IOT Innovations LLC filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Alphabet Inc. and others, asserting U.S. Patent 7,593,428.
Defendant
Alphabet Inc.
1 case as defendant.
Company profile
Alphabet Inc. is a publicly traded technology conglomerate created through a corporate restructuring of Google in 2015. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Alphabet is the parent holding company of Google and several other entities. The company trades on the Nasdaq exchange under the ticker symbols GOOGL and GOOG. For the fiscal year ending in 2025, Alphabet reported annual revenue of $402.8 billion. As of early 2025, the company had over 183,000 employees.
Alphabet's operations are divided into three main segments: Google Services, Google Cloud, and Other Bets. The Google Services segment is the largest, generating the vast majority of revenue through its core products: Search, the Android operating system, the Chrome browser, Google Maps, YouTube, and hardware products like Pixel smartphones. Google Cloud provides enterprise-level cloud computing infrastructure, data analytics, and AI solutions. The Other Bets segment includes a portfolio of earlier-stage technology ventures in diverse fields, such as the autonomous driving company Waymo, life sciences firm Verily, and drone delivery service Wing.
The company's patent litigation history shows it as an operating company defending its products and services against infringement allegations. With zero cases as a plaintiff and two as a defendant in the database, Alphabet's posture is purely defensive. Both tracked suits were filed by patent assertion entities in U.S. District Courts in Delaware and Illinois, which are common venues for patent litigation.
The two tracked cases were brought by entities that appear to be non-practicing entities (NPEs). The most recent suit, filed in April 2026, is VB Assets LLC v. Android International Inc et al. VB Assets was formed to assert patents originally developed by VoiceBox Technologies, an early developer of conversational AI. It has also sued Amazon and Apple over similar voice-recognition technology. The other case is IOT Innovations LLC v. Alphabet Inc., filed in December 2023. IOT Innovations is an NPE associated with Empire IP LLC and has asserted patents acquired from Intellectual Ventures against numerous technology companies.