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1 case as defendant.
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Koba Holdings, LLC — Company Profile
Koba Holdings, LLC is a Delaware limited liability company that serves as the corporate parent of Plano Encryption Technologies, LLC ("PET"), a Texas LLC formed in March 2015. It is a private holding entity with no public ticker; no employee count, revenue, or capital figures are disclosed in public sources, and none should be assumed. PET's address of record is 903 E. 18th Street, Suite 224, Plano, Texas, and Koba is organized in Delaware. The patent-assertion campaign associated with the group was run through PET, whose sole officer and employee was identified in RPX reporting as Texas attorney Bradley D. Liddle (also associated with Personal Audio, LLC).
Operations. Koba Holdings appears to be a non-operating holding company rather than a business with products or services. The operating function of the group was patent monetization through PET, which acquired U.S. Patent Nos. 5,974,550 ('550), 5,991,399 ('399), and 6,587,858 ('858) — encryption and "tamper resistant module" patents originally issued to Intel — from H2 Partners LLC in March 2015. PET asserted these patents against banks, mobile-banking platform vendors, and later consumer app operators. The patents were reassigned to Honeyman Cipher in March 2019.
Litigation posture. Koba Holdings appears in the tracked data as a defendant only (0 plaintiff, 1 defendant). That single appearance is Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. v. Plano Encryption Technologies, LLC et al. (D. Del., filed 2015-09-03), a declaratory-judgment action in which FIS sought a finding of non-infringement against PET and named Koba — PET's Delaware parent — because Koba was subject to personal jurisdiction in Delaware. The court declined jurisdiction over the Texas subsidiary but treated Koba as properly named. Koba's role is that of a parent/shell defendant, not an operating company defending its own products.
Context. The broader PET campaign (24+ tracked cases, largely E.D. Tex. and N.D. Tex.) targeted banks, Jack Henry & Associates, Q2 Holdings, Alkami, Best Buy, Etsy, Shutterfly, Groupon, Match.com, and State Farm, and drew IPRs. RPX and Unified Patents characterize PET as an NPE.
Declaratory judgment action against Plano Encryption Technologies and Koba Holdings. Defendants moved to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction and failure to state a claim; record lists case as CLOSED.