Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Alterna Securities, Inc. is a Houston, Texas-based retail broker-dealer (CRD #41139; SEC #8-49311) with its principal office at 2800 Post Oak Blvd., Suite 6300. It was established in Delaware in November 1993 and is a subsidiary of Alterna Holdings, Inc.; the ultimate parent is Mexican financial group Alterna Asesoría Internacional, S.A.B. de C.V., from which the firm licenses the "Alterna" name for a 4.6% revenue royalty. The firm operated previously as Actinver Securities, Inc. Its audited financial statements (filed with the SEC, auditor EEPB P.C.) report revenue in the roughly $15–17 million range for fiscal years 2023–2024 and total assets of about $14.5 million; it is privately held and no public employee count is disclosed.
The firm is an operating broker-dealer, not a patent holder. Per its SEC filings, revenue comes from sales and trailing commissions on equities, options, foreign exchange, mutual funds, OTC stocks, corporate bonds, and alternative investments, executed through a third-party clearing broker-dealer. It is affiliated with the investment adviser Alterna Wealth Management, Inc. and Alterna Insurance Services, Inc., and has a long-standing revenue-sharing arrangement with related party Actinver Casa de Bolsa. FINRA records show four disclosures, including settled 2021 (AML program) and 2023 (supervision of fixed-income trades) enforcement actions.
Litigation posture: Alterna is purely a defendant in the tracked data — 0 cases as plaintiff, 1 as defendant. The sole tracked matter is Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Alterna Securities, Inc., filed in the W.D. Tex. (Austin Division) with a parallel E.D. Tex. entry — venues that are the most common and plaintiff-friendly forums in the database.
Cedar Lane Technologies is a Canadian patent-assertion entity that acquires patents (many traced to Intellectual Ventures) and litigates in volume; Unified Patents, Stanford's NPE database, and RPX-linked reporting classify it as an NPE, with 400-plus suits since 2019 and most closed cases resolved by settlement. Reporting on January 2025 retail patent filings lists the patent asserted against Alterna as U.S. 8,577,782 ("Trading with conditional offers for semi-anonymous participants"), i.e., a trading-platform patent aimed at a financial-services defendant.
Cedar Lane reportedly sued Alterna Securities in Texas district courts in January 2025. The reported patents-in-suit include the '147 patent, 8,577,782, and 10,346,105; the docket number and outcome were not confirmed.