Defendant
1 case as defendant.
I'll research this company and the related case.
Let me verify the company's current status, since there were reports of bankruptcy.
Company overview. Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, Inc. ("CSSE") was a Connecticut-based media company headquartered at 132 East Putnam Avenue, Cos Cob, CT. It was formed on May 4, 2016 and traded on Nasdaq under the ticker CSSE (later CSSEQ). It operated as a subsidiary of Chicken Soup for the Soul, LLC, the publisher behind the book series and a pet-food line. Pre-bankruptcy it reported roughly 1,300 employees and revenue in the ~$250M–$370M range (FY2022 revenue ~$252.8M per MarketWatch). The company filed for Chapter 11 on June 28, 2024, citing approximately $970M in debt against ~$414M in assets; the case was converted to Chapter 7 liquidation on July 10, 2024, resulting in roughly 1,000 layoffs and an asset auction in 2025.
Products / services. CSSE was an advertising-supported video-on-demand (AVOD) operator. It owned Crackle Plus, which ran streaming networks including Crackle, Popcornflix, Truli, Pivotshare, and Chicken Soup for the Soul, and it acquired Redbox's DVD-kiosk and digital business in 2022 (~$375M all-stock deal with ~$360M assumed debt). It also acquired and distributed films and TV series through Screen Media and produced original content via the Chicken Soup for the Soul Television Group.
Patent-litigation posture. CSSE appears in the database solely as a defendant (0 plaintiff cases, 1 defendant case) — consistent with an operating company being targeted, not a patent assertor. The single tracked suit is Helios Streaming, LLC et al. v. Crackle, Inc. et al., filed September 27, 2019 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware (1:19-cv-01818), not a plaintiff-friendly Texas venue.
Notable case context. In that case, plaintiffs Helios Streaming (exclusive licensee) and Korea-based Ideahub asserted ten patents tied to the MPEG-DASH/DASH adaptive-bitrate streaming standard against Crackle, Crackle Plus, CSSE, and Sony entities. Per RPX, the patents originated with Korea's Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), with revenue-sharing arrangements involving Intellectual Discovery and the Korea Patent Investment Corporation. A parallel case targeted Walmart's Vudu. CSSE and co-defendants answered and counterclaimed in May 2020.
Patent infringement suit in which U.S. Patent No. 8,645,562 was listed among the asserted patents. Docket databases show the case closed/terminated, but the specific final outcome was not confirmed.