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2 cases as defendant.
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Comcast Corporation (commonly "Comcast," Nasdaq: CMCSA) is a publicly traded telecommunications and media conglomerate headquartered at the Comcast Center in Philadelphia. It was founded in 1963 as American Cable Systems in Tupelo, Mississippi, and re-incorporated as Comcast Corporation in Pennsylvania in 1969. The company reports no parent; the Roberts family holds Class B supervoting shares (~33% voting power). Per its FY2025 results, Comcast reported approximately $123.7 billion in revenue with roughly 179,000 employees as of December 31, 2025.
Operations. Comcast's core connectivity business is Xfinity—residential broadband, video, voice, and Xfinity Mobile (an MVNO on Verizon's network)—alongside Comcast Business, a commercial connectivity provider, and Sky Group, its European pay-TV, broadband, and mobile subsidiary. Through NBCUniversal it operates the NBC and Telemundo broadcast networks, cable networks (Bravo and others), Universal Pictures and related film studios, the Peacock streaming service, and Universal Destinations & Experiences theme parks. In January 2026 Comcast completed the spin-off of several cable networks and digital assets into Versant Media Group (Nasdaq: VSNT); in June 2026 it announced a proposed separation of its media businesses from its broadband/telecom businesses.
Litigation posture. This is an operating company, and its single tracked appearance is defensive: 0 cases as plaintiff, 1 as defendant. There is no indication of an assertion portfolio or offensive filing activity.
Tracked case. CommWorks Solutions, LLC v. Comcast Corp. et al., No. 6:21-cv-00366 (W.D. Tex., filed April 15, 2021, before Judge Alan D. Albright). Plaintiff CommWorks Solutions is characterized by Unified Patents as an NPE and subsidiary of IP Investments Group LLC. The suit asserted six patents (U.S. 6,832,249; 7,027,465; 7,177,285; 7,760,664; 8,923,846; RE42,883) covering broadband QoS/flow-priority, network path provisioning, Wi-Fi access provisioning, and mobile-network recovery techniques, targeting Comcast's internet services and Xfinity wireless gateway equipment. Third-party hardware (Ciena, Juniper, Arris) featured in the infringement allegations. Court records show the W.D. Tex. action was dismissed in July 2022; Unified Patents separately filed IPR and ex parte reexamination challenges against several of the same patents during 2021.
2021 wireless networking campaign case in W.D. Tex. against Comcast entities; listed by XR as involving the '376 patent in IPR2022-00613 mandatory notices.
CommWorks sued Comcast entities in W.D. Tex.; the complaint expressly pleaded the US 7,027,465 count. The UniCourt snapshot listed the case as pending with no merits ruling surfaced.