Defendant

Fifth Third Bank

1 case as defendant.

Cases
1
Active
0
1 closed
Filed
2013
Top venue
S.D. Ohio
1 case

Company profile

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Fifth Third Bancorp (common short names "Fifth Third," "5/3 Bank") is a Cincinnati-based bank holding company; the Ohio corporation was organized in 1975, while its principal subsidiary, Fifth Third Bank, National Association, traces to an 1858 Cincinnati bank. It is publicly traded on NASDAQ under FITB (S&P 500 component) and is not owned by a parent. Per its FY2025 Form 10-K, it held $214.4 billion in assets and employed 18,676 full-time-equivalent staff, with FY2025 revenue of about $9.0 billion and net income of $2.52 billion, operating 1,130 banking centers in 12 states.

Operations. Three reportable segments: Commercial Banking, Consumer and Small Business Banking, and Wealth and Asset Management. Products include checking, savings, and money market accounts; commercial loans and leases; mortgages; credit cards and installment lending; payments, commerce, and treasury management; and wealth planning, trust, brokerage, and asset management (roughly $80 billion in AUM and about $690 billion in assets under care at year-end 2025). Delivery is through branches, online, and mobile channels. In February 2026 it closed an all-stock merger with Comerica Incorporated valued at approximately $12.7 billion.

Litigation posture. An operating company defending, not an NPE. The case data shows 0 cases as plaintiff and 1 as defendant — consistent with a large regional bank being targeted rather than asserting patents. The single tracked suit was filed in its home district, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, not a plaintiff-friendly venue such as the Eastern District of Texas.

Notable case. Intellectual Ventures I & II LLC v. Fifth Third Bancorp et al. (S.D. Ohio, 1:13-cv-00378, filed June 4, 2013) asserted five patents ('701, '382, '894, '137, '587) covering online bill payment, online investment services, credit-card authorization, commercial card administration, and ATM deposit automation. It was part of Intellectual Ventures' 2013 campaign against roughly eight U.S. banks. The action was stayed pending USPTO review of the asserted patents and closed in 2015. No other patent suits involving the company appear in the tracked data.