LinkedIn Corporation

I'll research LinkedIn's corporate profile to accompany the case data.

LinkedIn Corporation ("LinkedIn") is the Sunnyvale, California–headquartered operator of the LinkedIn professional networking platform, at 1000 West Maude Avenue. It was founded in 2002–2003 in Mountain View by Reid Hoffman and co-founders and launched May 5, 2003. LinkedIn was publicly traded as LNKD until Microsoft Corporation acquired it in December 2016 for roughly $26.2 billion; it has since been a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary, so it files no separate financials. Headcount is reported in the ~20,000–26,000 range depending on source and year; Microsoft's FY2025 results disclose LinkedIn revenue growth of about 9% within its Productivity and Business Processes segment, with third-party segment analyses putting LinkedIn revenue near $18 billion.

Products and operations. LinkedIn operates a business- and employment-focused social network with a reported member base in excess of one billion. It monetizes through four disclosed lines: Talent Solutions (recruiting and hiring tools, including LinkedIn Learning), Marketing Solutions (advertising, including the LinkedIn Audience Network), Premium Subscriptions, and Sales Solutions.

Litigation posture. LinkedIn is an operating company defending itself, not an assertion-driven plaintiff. In the tracked data it appears as defendant in one case and as plaintiff in none — consistent with a large technology platform absorbing infringement suits rather than filing them. The lone case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware (Wilmington Division), the defendant's state of incorporation, not in an Eastern District of Texas–style plaintiff-friendly venue.

Notable case. AlmondNet, Inc. et al. v. LinkedIn Corporation (1:23-cv-01373-MN, D. Del., filed Dec. 1, 2023, before Judge Maryellen Noreika) accused LinkedIn Ads and the LinkedIn Audience Network of infringing nine to eleven targeted-advertising patents owned by AlmondNet, Inc. and its subsidiary Intent IQ, LLC — the AlmondNet Group founded in 1998 by Roy Shkedi, which has also sued Microsoft/Xandr, Amazon (a ~$122 million jury verdict in 2024), Meta, Roku, Samsung, and Oracle. LinkedIn petitioned for inter partes review of at least one asserted patent. Docket reporting indicates the parties stipulated to dismissal with prejudice; no merits determination was made.