Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Avaya Inc. (now legally Avaya LLC, commonly "Avaya") is an American multinational communications-technology company headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey. It was founded in 2000 as a spin-off of Lucent Technologies' enterprise-networking business. Avaya was publicly traded via Avaya Holdings Corp. (NYSE: AVYA) until it filed a prepackaged Chapter 11 in February 2023 and emerged that May as a privately held company owned by its senior lenders, including Apollo Global Management and Brigade Capital Management. Reported headcount has been roughly 7,000–8,100, with revenue of about $2.8–3.0 billion in its last full public years (2021–2022).
Avaya supplies enterprise communications software, hardware, and services. Its main offerings are unified communications and collaboration (VoIP telephony, video, messaging, Avaya Aura and Avaya Cloud Office), contact-center systems and contact-center-as-a-service (CCaaS, including omnichannel routing and AI-assisted customer experience), and related cloud, managed, and professional services, sold directly and through a large channel-partner network. It also historically sold enterprise networking gear (Ethernet switches, routers, wireless) from its 2009 acquisition of Nortel's enterprise business. Its customers span large enterprises, midmarket firms, and governments in over 100 countries. It is an operating company, not a patent-assertion entity.
Litigation posture: The tracked data show Avaya as a defendant in both appearances, and zero as a plaintiff — the profile of an operating company being targeted rather than an aggressor. Both entries are the same 2018 suit, so the underlying dispute is a single matter rather than two independent campaigns. There is no evidence here of Avaya asserting patents offensively.
Notable case: Realtime Adaptive Streaming LLC v. Avaya Inc. (Case No. 1:18-cv-01046, D. Colorado, filed May 4, 2018). Plaintiff Realtime Adaptive Streaming is a Tyler, Texas-based licensing entity that has filed numerous parallel suits against technology and media companies asserting acquired data-compression patents (e.g., the '046, '535, and '477 patents covering bandwidth-sensitive data compression and video data compression). The venue was the District of Colorado, not the Eastern District of Texas, and the case was terminated in September 2018. The asserted compression technology relates to video/audio data handling in Avaya's communications products.
Member case consolidated into lead No. 2:16-cv-00642. Patents-in-suit included '947, '723, '622, '433, and '890. Dismissed with prejudice by joint stipulation under FRCP 41(a)(1)(A)(ii), each party to bear its own costs and fees.