Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Alphabet Inc. (commonly known as Google) is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in Mountain View, California. It was formed in 2015 through a corporate restructuring of Google, which was originally founded in 1998. Alphabet is a publicly traded company listed on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbols GOOGL and GOOG. For the fiscal year 2025, the company reported annual revenue of over $402 billion and had approximately 190,820 employees.
Alphabet's operations are primarily conducted through three segments: Google Services, Google Cloud, and Other Bets. Google Services includes its core and most profitable businesses: online advertising, the Android mobile operating system, the Chrome web browser, Google Maps, the Google Play app store, Google Search, and the YouTube video platform. Google Cloud provides enterprise cloud computing, data analytics, and AI services. The "Other Bets" segment is a portfolio of early-stage technology companies in diverse fields such as autonomous driving (Waymo), life sciences research (Verily and Calico), and drone delivery (Wing).
As an operating company with extensive global products and services, Alphabet is frequently a target in patent litigation. The provided data shows Alphabet as a defendant in one tracked patent case, Datacloud Technologies LLC v. Alphabet Inc. (Google), filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. This defensive posture, being a defendant rather than a plaintiff, is typical for large technology corporations that are often sued by non-practicing entities (NPEs). While this specific case is noted, Alphabet and its subsidiaries are regularly involved in a wide range of legal disputes globally, including significant antitrust and user privacy lawsuits.
Infringement suit filed by Datacloud Technologies LLC against Alphabet Inc. (Google). The case was transferred from the Western District of Texas to the Northern District of California and was subsequently dismissed.