Fallon et al.

Note on the entity. "Fallon et al." as it appears in the case data is not an operating company. It is the inventor caption used by the USPTO/PTAB for the "Fallon patents" — U.S. patents naming James J. Fallon and Stephen J. McErlain as inventors — where the patent owner is docketed by inventor name rather than assignee. No standalone business by that name could be verified, and no headquarters, revenue, headcount, or ticker could be confirmed.

Underlying patent owner. The Fallon patents were assigned to Realtime Data, LLC (Armonk, NY), the entity associated with the inventors' data-compression technology. In 2017 the portfolio was transferred to Realtime Adaptive Streaming LLC, a privately held Texas limited liability company with a stated business address at 1828 E.S.E. Loop 323, Tyler, Texas. Realtime Adaptive Streaming shows no verifiable product, manufacturing, or service operations; it functions as a patent-holding and licensing/assertion vehicle. Its portfolio covers data compression and video/audio data storage and distribution (e.g., U.S. Pat. Nos. 7,386,046; 8,934,535; 9,762,907; 9,769,477; 9,578,298), with several claims held invalid under §101 or on prior-art grounds.

Litigation posture. The case data shows 0 plaintiff / 1 defendant appearances — the entity is being challenged, not asserting here. That single PTAB appearance reflects the limited window captured; in district court the owner has been a high-volume plaintiff, filing infringement suits in the Eastern District of Texas (Tyler Division) and the District of Delaware against Netflix, Samsung, LG, Sony, Hulu, Cisco, Brightcove, Haivision, Amazon, Adobe, and DISH/Sling, among others.

Notable case. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC et al. v. Fallon et al., IPR2019-01109 (PTAB, filed May 17, 2019), challenged U.S. Patent No. 9,769,477 ("Video Data Compression Systems"); a parallel petition, IPR2019-01280, addressed the same family, with a final written decision in April 2020. Unified Patents also challenged the portfolio (IPR2018-00883), and multiple district courts found the Fallon claims patent-ineligible under Alice.