Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Huntington Bancshares Incorporated ("Huntington," Nasdaq: HBAN) is a public, multi-state diversified regional bank holding company organized under Maryland law in 1966 and headquartered at Huntington Center, 41 South High Street, Columbus, Ohio; its predecessor bank was founded in 1866. Fortune lists roughly 20,400 employees and about $12.0 billion in revenue (2024 data). Total assets were $225.1 billion at December 31, 2025, and market capitalization was roughly $34 billion in mid-2026. Its sole bank subsidiary is The Huntington National Bank.
Huntington delivers commercial and consumer banking through two reportable segments — Consumer & Regional Banking and Commercial Banking — plus a Treasury/Other function. Offerings include deposit and lending products, payments, mortgage banking, direct and indirect consumer financing, investment banking, capital markets, advisory, equipment financing, distribution finance, investment management, trust, brokerage, and insurance. It operated more than 1,000 branches in 14 states at year-end 2025, growing to roughly 1,400 branches in 21 states after the February 1, 2026 Cadence Bank merger (approximately $8.1 billion); it had also completed the Veritex Holdings acquisition in October 2025 (~$1.7 billion, $12.0 billion in assets).
Patent-litigation posture: pure defendant. The tracked data show 1 case as defendant and 0 as plaintiff, consistent with an operating bank defending against a patent asserted by a non-practicing entity, not an active two-way litigant.
Notable case: Intellectual Ventures II LLC v. Huntington Bancshares Incorporated et al., No. 2:13-cv-00785 (S.D. Ohio, Columbus), filed August 7, 2013, naming Huntington and The Huntington National Bank, with asserted patents including U.S. 5,745,574 and 6,826,694. Intellectual Ventures, co-founded by Nathan Myhrvold, is widely characterized by RPX, Unified Patents, and press coverage as a patent assertion entity; in 2013 it filed a wave of suits against banks. The court granted a motion to stay in June 2014. Notably, this case was filed in Huntington's home district rather than a plaintiff-friendly venue such as the Eastern District of Texas.
Sources: Huntington 2025 Form 10-K; Fortune; Nasdaq/Simply Wall St data; Docket (Justia); USPTO PTAB filings; Unified Patents/RPX commentary on Intellectual Ventures.
Intellectual Ventures II LLC asserted U.S. Patent 6,826,694, along with U.S. Patents 5,745,574, 6,715,084, 6,314,409, and 7,634,666, against Huntington Bancshares Incorporated and The Huntington National Bank in the 2013 IV II banking campaign. A stay was granted pending IPR; final disposition was not confirmed.