Defendant
2 cases as defendant.
LiveXLive Media, Inc. — now operating as LiveOne, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVO). The company was founded in 2009, is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California, and went public on Nasdaq; it changed its corporate name from LiveXLive Media, Inc. to LiveOne, Inc. in October 2021. It is a public company with no parent owner. Public trackers put headcount in the ~90–140 range and annual revenue near the low hundreds of millions of dollars (one source cites roughly $100M in 2023 and $118M in 2024); figures vary by source and reporting period.
LiveOne is an operating digital-media and streaming company, not a patent holder or shell. Its business centers on subscription streaming and membership services: the LiveOne live-music streaming platform and app; Slacker Radio, an internet-radio/membership service distributed direct and through mobile providers and automotive OEMs on a white-label basis; PodcastOne (podcasting, later spun out to a separate Nasdaq listing while remaining majority-owned); pay-per-view/live events via PPVOne and React Presents; advertising; and personalized merchandise through CPS. Revenue lines include membership, advertising, ticketing/live events, licensing, and merchandising.
Patent-litigation posture: pure defendant. Across the tracked data the company appears in 2 cases, 0 as plaintiff and 2 as defendant — the profile of an operating company being sued rather than an assertor. Both tracked entries are the same dispute: Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. LiveXLive Media, Inc., filed October 9, 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware (No. 1:20-cv-01370). The venue is Delaware, not a plaintiff-friendly Eastern District of Texas forum.
Context: Cedar Lane Technologies is a British Columbia-formed, non-practicing entity (director Greg Benoit; address tied to IP licensing firm Pigott & Co.) that acquired patents originating with Intellectual Ventures and ran a campaign of roughly 70-plus defendants. In the LiveXLive suit it asserted U.S. Patent Nos. 6,452,609; 6,502,194; 6,526,411; 6,721,489; 7,173,177; and 7,610,394, covering playlist creation/management and web media streaming — technology mapped to LiveXLive's web player and app.
Cedar Lane's Delaware suit against LiveXLive Media is listed in the '147 patent's litigation context, but the retrieved excerpt did not confirm that the '147 patent was asserted.
Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. asserted the '489 patent against LiveXLive Media, Inc. in D. Del.; the docket number was not confirmed. The narrative cites Law Street Media.