CommWorks Solutions, LLC v. Digi International Inc.
- Docket:
- 0:26-cv-03949
- Court:
- D. Minn.
- Filed:
- 2026-09-09
Filed approximately 2026-09-09; Judge Katherine M. Menendez. Five exhibits (A–E); '807 inclusion unconfirmed.
Defendant
1 case as defendant.
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Company overview. Digi International Inc. ("Digi") is a Delaware-incorporated, Nasdaq-listed company (ticker DGII) formed in 1985 as a Minnesota corporation and reorganized in Delaware in 1989 at its IPO. Its world headquarters is at 9350 Excelsior Blvd., Suite 700, Hopkins, Minnesota. Digi is a public operating company with no parent; it is a large accelerated filer. Per its FY2025 Form 10-K (fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 2025), revenue was $430.2 million and headcount was about 913 (as reported by MarketWatch/WSJ and the 10-K). Market capitalization has recently traded in roughly the $2–3 billion range depending on date.
Products / services / operations. Digi describes itself as a global provider of business- and mission-critical IoT connectivity products, services and solutions, organized in two reportable segments. IoT Products & Services (~74% of FY2025 revenue) supplies embedded and wireless modules, console servers, enterprise and industrial routers, and other infrastructure-management hardware, plus device-management platform and professional services. IoT Solutions (~26%) comprises SmartSense by Digi (wireless temperature and condition monitoring, task management, label printing) and Ventus (Managed Network-as-a-Service, including cellular and fixed-line WAN connectivity), plus Jolt Software, acquired in fiscal Q4 2025 for about $145.5 million. Sales flow largely through distributors/VARs such as Arrow, Avnet, Digi-Key and Ingram Micro; manufacturing is outsourced to contract manufacturers in Thailand, Mexico, Taiwan and Cambodia.
Patent-litigation posture. Digi appears in this database once, solely as a defendant, with zero plaintiff-side suits — the classic profile of an operating company being targeted, not an asserter. The single tracked case, CommWorks Solutions, LLC v. Digi International Inc. (filed 2026-09-09), sits in the District of Minnesota, Digi's home venue, not a plaintiff-friendly Texas district. Digi has historically defended rather than filed patent suits, e.g., a 2013 settlement with U.S. Ethernet Innovations and a 2022–2024 defense against NimbeLink/Airgain, where the court invalidated the asserted claims in May 2024.
Notable cases / context. The plaintiff, CommWorks Solutions, LLC, is characterized by Unified Patents and RPX as a non-practicing entity and subsidiary of IP Investments Group LLC; its portfolio consists of acquired networking and Wi-Fi/WAN patents (many sourced from Intellectual Ventures) asserted across numerous hardware and telecom defendants. Because the Digi case is recent and filed in Minnesota, no merits findings are yet available.