Defendant
4 cases as defendant.
Company overview. Dalim Software GmbH (styled "DALIM SOFTWARE") is a privately held German software company headquartered at Strassburger Strasse 6, Kehl, Germany. It traces its origins to Dalim GmbH, founded in 1985/1986 by physicist Francis M. Lamy; the original company entered German receivership in 1998 and its assets were split in 1999, with the majority going to U.S. reseller Blanchard Systems, which launched Dalim Software GmbH that year. It is not publicly traded and reports no outside venture backing; headcount estimates range from roughly 50 (PitchBook, 2022) to 66 (Tracxn) with Gartner listing a 51–200 band. The company says it has staff across Europe, North and South America.
Products / services. Dalim develops prepress, workflow-automation and content-production software for print, packaging, publishing and brand/retail content operations. Its product family includes DALIM ES (enterprise content production and digital asset management), DALIM TWIST (automated file processing, preflight and workflow engine), DALIM DIALOGUE (browser-based color proofing, annotation and approval) and DALIM DRIVE (high-volume print processing, imposition and trapping). In 2026 it introduced DALIM FUSION, a unified platform consolidating ES, TWIST, DIALOGUE and DRIVE. This is an operating company with commercial software products, not a shell licensor.
Patent-litigation posture. Purely defensive. The tracked data shows 4 cases as defendant and 0 as plaintiff. All four involve RAH Color Technologies LLC, a Virginia LLC managed by inventor Dr. Richard A. Holub that asserts color-management patents against a broad set of graphics, imaging and software vendors. Dalim appears as one target of that campaign rather than as an asserter.
Notable cases / context. The tracked suits are RAH Color Technologies LLC v. Dalim Software GmbH (N.D. Ill., filed January 2019; transferred to N.D. Cal. as 3:19-cv-00518-SI) and the related RAH Color Technologies LLC v. Adobe Inc. et al. consolidated proceeding in N.D. Cal. (3:18-md-02874), which also named Adobe, Microsoft, Xerox, Heidelberg, EFI, X-Rite and others. Filings occurred in the Northern District of Illinois rather than the Eastern District of Texas; the Dalim action was consolidated with the other RAH cases in California. The technology at issue is ICC-profile and color-management functionality reflected in prepress and proofing software such as Dalim's. No outcome data is reflected in the tracked case list.
The '704 patent was among the asserted RAH patents in this coordinated litigation. The case was transferred by MDL Conditional Transfer Order to the N.D. California.
MDL No. 2874 consolidated RAH Color Technologies LLC's infringement actions against Adobe, Xerox, and others with Electronics For Imaging's declaratory-judgment action. The NPE Litigation Database lists the MDL as involving U.S. Patent 7,710,560; final judgment was entered on September 27, 2021, and the MDL docket closed July 26, 2022.
RAH Color Technologies LLC asserted U.S. Patent 7,729,008 against Dalim Software GmbH. The case was transferred from N.D. Ill. to N.D. Cal. and dismissed by joint stipulation on 2021-09-27.
Asserted '870; transferred into MDL No. 2874 by Conditional Transfer Order.