Defendant

Ferid Allani

1 case as defendant.

Cases
1
Active
1
0 closed
Filed
2025
Top venue
PTAB
1 case
Also appears as a plaintiff in 1 case → View as plaintiff

Company profile

Ferid Allani — Profile

Company overview. Ferid Allani is not a company but an individual inventor and former entrepreneur — a French national of Tunisian origin. There is no public headquarters, ticker, revenue, or headcount to report; he operates as a private individual. According to his own complaint in the Texas case, he founded computer-parts outsourcing firm Securinfor in 1986 (president 1990–2013) and co-founded All Net France in 1998 with his children to design internet-enabled terminals for telephone booths, an effort that produced the PUBLICDESK concept and the underlying patent family.

Products / services / operations. Allani sells no verifiable products or services tied to the asserted U.S. patents. The portfolio at issue covers "Method and Device for Accessing Information Sources and Services on the Web" — U.S. Patent Nos. 8,271,877 (issued 2012; expired April 2024) and 10,943,058 (issued 2021; expired July 2021) — directed to locally stored, tree-menu selection pages with "direct access icons" on mobile devices. In the U.S., Apple's IPR petition characterized the '877 patent as never commercialized, marked, or licensed, consistent with an individual asserting an unworked portfolio.

Patent-litigation posture. Allani is a one-way plaintiff/NPE-style litigant: 1 case as plaintiff vs. 1 as defendant in the tracked data. He sued Apple in the Western District of Texas, Waco Division (Judge Albright) on June 3, 2024 — a plaintiff-friendly venue — after both patents had expired, limiting claims to past damages. Apple responded as defendant in inter partes review at the PTAB (filed April 24, 2025) challenging both patents.

Notable cases / context. In Ferid Allani v. Apple Inc. (No. 6:24-cv-304-ADA), Allani accuses Apple's iPhone/iOS user interfaces of infringement; Apple's IPR on the '877 patent was denied institution in November 2025. Externally, the French priority patent (FR 2 803 929) was invalidated by the Paris Judicial Court in January 2023 in parallel suits against Apple and Google seeking ~€60 million combined, with a Microsoft case also pending in France. Separately, the Delhi High Court's 2019 ruling in Ferid Allani v. Union of India became a landmark decision on software-patent eligibility in India.