Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Customedia Technologies, L.L.C. (styled "Customedia Technologies, LLC" in court filings) is a privately held limited liability company. Its Federal Circuit Rule 47.4 certificate of interest (2020) identifies Texas Customedia LLC as its parent; no publicly traded company holds a 10%+ stake. USPTO records list a Santa Rosa Beach, Florida address. No employee count or revenue figures are publicly reported, and it is not publicly traded. It should not be confused with an unrelated San Diego "Customedia" video-personalization startup.
Operations. Customedia is not an operating company. DISH Network's 10-K describes it as "an entity that seeks to license a patent portfolio without itself practicing any of the claims recited therein." Its assets are four patents — U.S. Pat. Nos. 7,840,437; 8,719,090; 8,955,029; and 9,053,494 — all titled "System for Data Management and On-Demand Rental and Purchase of Digital Data Products," with a priority date of June 12, 1997. Sole inventor William Henry Lewis assigned all rights to Customedia. The patents claim reserved, individually controlled storage sections for targeted advertising data in set-top boxes and VOD systems. No products or services are offered.
Litigation posture. Customedia is a patent-assertion entity: one plaintiff suit and one defensive PTAB proceeding, both against the same defendant and both arising from the same dispute. It has no operating-company defendant profile. It filed its infringement case in the plaintiff-friendly Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division, before Judge Rodney Gilstrap.
Notable cases. Customedia Technologies, L.L.C. v. DISH Network Corporation et al. (E.D. Tex., No. 2:16-cv-00129) was filed February 10, 2016, asserting all four patents against DISH's addressable advertising, DISH Anywhere, pay-per-view, and VOD offerings. DISH petitioned for IPR and covered-business-method review (the tracked PTAB matter, DISH Network Corp. v. Customedia Technologies, L.L.C.), covering every asserted claim; the case was stayed in August 2017. The PTAB invalidated the challenged claims, and the Federal Circuit affirmed (Customedia Techs., LLC v. Dish Network Corp., 951 F.3d 1359 (Fed. Cir. 2020)). The district court dismissed with prejudice in August 2022, and denied DISH's $550,000 fee motion under 35 U.S.C. § 285 in December 2022.
DISH petitioned for covered business method review of U.S. Patent No. 7,840,437. The PTAB instituted review and held all challenged claims 1, 9, 10, and 13-16 unpatentable/cancelled.