Defendant
1 case as defendant.
American Bank of Texas was a Texas-chartered community bank headquartered at 2011 Texoma Parkway, Sherman, Texas, north of Dallas (Austin Business Journal; Oklahoma Journal Record). Originally chartered in 1971 and owned by the Harber family through holding company North American Bancshares, Inc. (Austin Business Journal; Journal Record), it reported roughly $2.3 billion in assets and 32 Texas branches as of mid-2016. Third-party business databases estimate headcount around 110–150 and revenue in the high-$20M range, but these are unsourced estimates, not audited disclosures. It should not be confused with American Bank of Texas, N.A. of Marble Falls, Texas, a separate institution.
Operations. It was an operating community bank offering consumer and commercial deposits, commercial and consumer lending, mortgage lending, and branch/online banking; it operated as a banking subsidiary of North American Bancshares, Inc. (Austin Business Journal). In June 2016 it announced a merger with Durant, Oklahoma–based First United Bank and Trust Co., a subsidiary of Durant Bancorp, Inc.; the deal closed November 11, 2016, and all locations began operating under the First United name, ending American Bank of Texas's independent existence (Journal Record; Dallas Business Journal; PRNewswire).
Litigation posture. One tracked case, as defendant only (0 as plaintiff), which is consistent with an operating institution being attacked rather than asserting patents. Plano Encryption Technologies, LLC v. American Bank of Texas, No. 2:15-cv-01273-JRG (E.D. Tex.), was filed July 15, 2015 before Judge Rodney Gilstrap in the plaintiff-friendly Eastern District of Texas; the bank answered and counterclaimed, and the case was consolidated for pretrial purposes and closed September 23, 2016 (RPX Insight; Unified Patents docket).
Context. Plaintiff PET is a non-practicing entity formed in Texas in March 2015, wholly owned by Koba Holdings, LLC (Delaware), with one officer/employee (RPX; USPTO IPR filings). It asserted acquired patents U.S. 5,974,550 and 5,991,399, both originally issued to Intel, covering remote authentication/tamper-resistant modules and digital-content key distribution (E.D. Tex. claim construction order; RPX). PET's single campaign targeted banks, banking-software vendors, and later retailers such as Best Buy, Etsy, Shutterfly, Groupon, and State Farm; Stanford's NPE database classifies PET as a non-practicing entity asserting acquired patents.
Plano Encryption Technologies, LLC sued American Bank of Texas, et al. The case was consolidated by order dated October 29, 2015, and subsequently dismissed.