Defendant
1 case as defendant.
K. Mizra LLC is a private patent-licensing company formed in Delaware in June 2019. The company operates as a non-practicing entity (NPE) and is managed by Charles Jourdan Hausman, who is its sole managing member. In legal filings, K. Mizra has identified the New York-based litigation finance firm Parabellum Capital as a capital provider. The company maintains a principal address in Miami, Florida.
K. Mizra LLC's business is focused exclusively on licensing and litigating patent portfolios. The company states it does not produce products and is characterized in litigation records as a patent assertion entity. Its patent assets are acquired from a wide range of well-known technology companies and research institutes, including IBM, Intel, Sharp, and Rambus. The portfolios asserted by K. Mizra span various technologies, including network security, wireless communications, and multifunction printer technologies.
The company is an active patent-litigant, primarily as a plaintiff. As indicated by its three plaintiff cases and one defendant case in the provided data, K. Mizra's strategy involves filing patent infringement lawsuits against technology companies. It has filed suits in venues known for patent litigation, such as the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas. The single defendant case, Google LLC v. K. Mizra LLC, is a declaratory judgment action filed by Google in the Northern District of California, a common defensive measure taken by operating companies targeted by patent assertion entities.
K. Mizra's litigation campaigns have targeted a variety of technology companies. Notable defendants in its tracked cases include Fortinet, CrowdStrike, and Rapid7, in suits concerning network security technology. The company has also asserted former Intel patents against Broadcom related to Wi-Fi technology and former Sharp patents against companies like Konica Minolta. Patent-risk management firms like Unified Patents have instituted proceedings to challenge the validity of patents asserted by K. Mizra.
A declaratory judgment action brought by Google LLC against K. Mizra LLC, related to prior litigation initiated by K. Mizra against Fortinet, Inc. The case is currently pending.