Defendant
4 cases as defendant.
Company overview. Google Payment Corp. (GPC), sometimes styled Google Payment Corporation and doing business as Google Payments and Google Wallet, is a Delaware corporation headquartered at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California. Its own court filings describe it as a privately held corporation that issues no public stock and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Google LLC, which is a subsidiary of XXVI Holdings Inc. and, in turn, Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL). It has been registered to do business in Texas since 2005. Alphabet does not separately disclose GPC's headcount or revenue; no reliable standalone figures were found.
Operations. GPC is the Google subsidiary that processes payments. Per Google's own help documentation, it holds money-transmitter (or equivalent) licenses across essentially every U.S. state and territory under NMLS ID 911607. It acts as merchant of record for Google Play in-app purchases, Play gift-card transactions, and YouTube purchases, disbursing funds to developers, and it formerly operated the U.S. Google Pay peer-to-peer and stored-value wallet products, which Google retired in June 2024. It is also a named defendant with Google LLC in the Google Play Store consumer class litigation.
Patent-litigation posture. Pure defendant: 0 tracked cases as plaintiff, 1 as defendant. This is the profile of an operating company being attacked, not an NPE or shell licensor.
Notable case. Proxense, LLC v. Google LLC et al., No. 6:23-cv-00320 (W.D. Tex., Waco Division, Judge Alan Albright). Proxense, a Delaware LLC based in Bend, Oregon, asserted six patents covering biometric "personal digital key" authentication against Google's passwordless architecture, including Google Identity, the Android authenticator, Titan Security Key, and Google Pay/Wallet. Google failed to win a Federal Circuit mandamus transferring the case to the Northern District of California (April 2024). Proxense voluntarily dismissed the suit in January 2025, a month before trial. Proxense also sued Samsung (settled) and Microsoft, where the PTAB invalidated two asserted patents in 2025. Separately, GPC sued the CFPB in D.C. federal court over payment supervision, dropping that suit in May 2025 after the CFPB withdrew its order.
Proxense sued Google LLC and Google Payment Corp., asserting the '960 patent as Exhibit 6 and alleging infringement of at least claims 14 and 16. The case settled and was dismissed.
RFCyber sued Google LLC and Google Payment Corp. in E.D. Tex. (Marshall) alleging infringement of US 9,189,787. The parties settled; deadlines were stayed 2022-02-11 and the case was dismissed/terminated 2022-03-28. Google's parallel IPRs were terminated as settled.
RFCyber asserted the '855 patent, listed as Ex. C to the complaint, against Google. The case resolved, and Google's parallel IPRs were terminated pre-institution on settlement.
Proxense sued Google LLC and Google Payment Corp. in W.D. Tex., asserting US 9,679,289 claims 14 and 16. Google Payment Corp. was dismissed without prejudice on July 10, 2023, and the case remained pending with a parallel IPR2024-00783 instituted Nov. 18, 2024.