Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Atlas Roofing Corporation (commonly "Atlas Roofing" or "Atlas") is a privately held manufacturer of building materials headquartered at 2000 RiverEdge Parkway, Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1982, it is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hood Companies, Inc. (also referenced as Hood Industries), a closely held private holding company. Atlas does not publicly report revenue; third-party data (IBISWorld) estimates roughly 1,350 employees, with other directories giving bands of 1,000–5,000. It is not publicly traded.
Atlas manufactures and distributes roofing and insulation products through four divisions: Polyiso Roof & Wall Insulation; Shingle & Underlayment; Molded Products; and Web Technologies. Its product lines include asphalt shingles (StormMaster Shake, Pinnacle Pristine, Pinnacle Sun, Pinnacle Impact, ProLam), roof underlayments, ventilation and accessory components, rigid expanded-polystyrene and polyiso insulation, geofoam, cold-chain and protective packaging, lost-foam products, and coated and paper facers. The company states it operates 36 facilities across North America, with distribution in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
Patent-litigation posture: Atlas appears in the tracked data as a defendant only (0 plaintiff cases, 1 defendant case), consistent with an operating company defending against an assertion. The single tracked suit, Kirsch Research & Development, LLC v. Atlas Roofing Corporation (5:20-cv-00055, E.D. Tex., Texarkana Division, filed 2020-04-24), was brought by Kirsch Research & Development, LLC of Simi Valley, California — a non-practicing entity asserting U.S. Patent No. 8,765,251 on synthetic roofing underlayment. The venue is the plaintiff-friendly Eastern District of Texas.
Context: Kirsch's campaign was broader than this one case: the same patent was the basis of U.S. International Trade Commission Investigation No. 337-TA-1202, "Certain Synthetic Roofing Underlayment Products," naming eleven respondents including Atlas, CertainTeed, and DuPont. Atlas moved to stay the district case pending that ITC proceeding. Atlas also filed an inter partes review petition against Kirsch in June 2021 (Atlas Roofing Corporation v. Kirsch Research and Development, LLC), making it a one-way defensive litigant that contested the asserted portfolio rather than asserting patents itself.
Kirsch filed this action asserting the '482 patent against Atlas Roofing. The case was dismissed with prejudice by stipulated order entered 2021-11-10.