Haivision KB Inc. is a Delaware-registered subsidiary of Haivision Systems Inc. (TSX: HAI), a publicly traded Canadian company founded in 2004 by Miroslav (Mirko) Wicha. Haivision is headquartered at 2600 Alfred-Nobel Blvd., Montreal, with US headquarters in Deerfield, Illinois. Public filings list roughly 380 employees and revenue around C$130 million for fiscal 2024. "Haivision KB Inc." sits within the Haivision group alongside Haivision Network Video Inc., Haivision US Holdings Inc., AVIWEST S.A.S., and Haivision MCS LLC.
Haivision supplies mission-critical, low-latency live video networking and visual collaboration systems. Principal offerings include the Makito series of edge encoders/decoders, the KB Series of H.264/HEVC internet media encoders and transcoders (the product line behind the "KB" entity name, tracing to the 2011 KulaByte acquisition), Kraken real-time transcoders, digital signage, cloud and IP-video management software, and the open-source Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) protocol. Customers span broadcast/media, enterprise, medical, education, and government/defense. It is an operating company, not a shell licensor.
Litigation posture: Haivision KB appears only as a defendant (2 tracked entries, 0 as plaintiff). Both tracked records correspond to the same dispute, Realtime Adaptive Streaming LLC v. Haivision Network Video Inc. et al., filed 2017-10-26 in the District of Delaware — one entry listed generically as "District of Delaware" and one as "D. Del." This is the profile of an operating company being attacked by a patent assertion entity rather than an active two-way litigant.
Context: Plaintiff Realtime Adaptive Streaming LLC is characterized by Unified Patents as an NPE/PAE asserting data-compression and video-coding patents (the "Fallon" family). In the Delaware case (1:17-cv-01520), Realtime asserted patents including U.S. 8,934,535, 9,769,477, 8,929,442, 9,762,907, and 7,386,046 against Haivision's HEVC/H.264 encoding products, in parallel with suits against Netflix, Brightcove, and Sony. Haivision moved to dismiss on § 101 grounds, producing a magistrate report and recommendation. Realtime filed related follow-on suits against Haivision in the Western District of Texas in July 2019 (6:19-cv-00440/441), which closed later that year.