Company overview. Condenet, Inc. (commonly "CondéNet") was the internet/digital publishing unit of Condé Nast Publications, itself a privately held subsidiary of Advance Publications, Inc. It was launched in May 1995 as Condé Nast's new-media subsidiary — Condé Nast announced CondeNet's creation in a May 1, 1995 New York Times report — and was headquartered in New York City. It was originally organized under Advance Publications and fully absorbed into Condé Nast in 2005. No public ticker; employee counts and revenue are not disclosed in reliable public sources (third-party estimator figures are unverified and should not be treated as authoritative).
Products / services. CondéNet was an operating company, not a patent holder: it built, published and sold advertising on upscale lifestyle websites tied to Condé Nast magazine brands. Its properties at various points included food (Epicurious.com, NutritionData.com), travel (Concierge.com, HotelChatter.com, Jaunted.com), fashion (Style.com), men's lifestyle (Men.Style.com), technology (Wired.com, Reddit, Ars Technica, Webmonkey, HotWired) and teen (flip.com). It also operated an ad network and struck distribution deals (e.g., with YouTube).
Patent-litigation posture. CondéNet appears once in the tracked data, exclusively as a defendant (0 plaintiff, 1 defendant) — the profile of an operating company targeted in a patent suit, not an asserter. The single case, InternetAd Systems, LLC v. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. et al., was filed June 15, 2006 in the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division (3:06-cv-01063), a venue historically favored by patent plaintiffs; it closed April 8, 2008.
Notable case context. The plaintiff, InternetAd Systems, LLC, was a wholly owned subsidiary of Acacia Research Corporation's Acacia Technologies group, a licensing/assertion entity that acquired patents from inventor David Judson (U.S. 5,572,648; 5,737,619; 6,185,586; 6,456,025) covering interstitial and pop-up internet advertising, and sued multiple website operators. CondéNet was one of several defendants. CondéNet itself was dissolved as a brand/unit in January 2009 and succeeded by Condé Nast Digital, which consolidated Condé Nast's roughly 30 magazine websites.