Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Company overview. Booking Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: BKNG), formerly The Priceline Group until its February 2018 rename, is a Delaware-incorporated, U.S.-headquartered public company based at 800 Connecticut Avenue, Norwalk, Connecticut. It traces its founding to Priceline.com in 1997. It is one of the largest online travel companies by gross bookings, with roughly 24,000–25,500 employees and revenue of about $26.9 billion for 2025; market capitalization has recently been reported around $133 billion. Booking Holdings is an independent, publicly traded parent — not a subsidiary.
Products / services. Booking Holdings operates a portfolio of online travel and restaurant platforms rather than owning inventory itself: Booking.com (accommodation, flights, attractions, and its merchant/agency booking model), Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK and Cheapflights (travel metasearch), Rentalcars.com (car rentals), OpenTable (restaurant reservations), and Rocketmiles (loyalty travel rewards). The company earns primarily commission-based revenue from travel suppliers and advertising. It operates across more than 220 countries and territories.
Patent-litigation posture. Booking Holdings appears in the tracked data as a defendant only (0 plaintiff cases, 1 defendant case), which is the profile of an operating company defending against patent assertions rather than an entity that asserts patents. The single tracked suit is Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Booking Holdings, Inc. (7:25-cv-00148, W.D. Tex.), filed in the Western District of Texas — a venue that, along with the Eastern District of Texas, has been the most common forum for high-volume patent plaintiffs.
Notable context. The plaintiff, Cedar Lane Technologies Inc., is a Canadian-based entity widely classified as a non-practicing entity (NPE/PAE) in Unified Patents' and Stanford NPE Litigation Database records. It was founded around 2019, has acquired patents originating with parties including Intellectual Ventures, and has filed several hundred infringement suits — largely in W.D. Tex. and E.D. Tex. and in the District of Delaware — with the large majority resolved by settlement. Its asserted portfolios generally involve imaging, image/data processing, and computer and communications technologies. No merits findings or outcomes for the Booking Holdings case are available in the tracked data.