Defendant
3 cases as defendant.
Overview. Luminati Networks Ltd. is an Israeli web-data infrastructure company founded in 2014 by Ofer Vilenski and Derry Shribman, originally as a spin-off of the peer-to-peer VPN service Hola. It is headquartered in Netanya, Israel (with a New York office). Since 2017 it has been privately held by London-based private equity firm EMK Capital, which reportedly acquired it in partnership with the founders at a valuation of roughly $200 million. In March 2021 the company rebranded as Bright Data; the Luminati name persists mainly in legacy contracts and litigation. Company materials report 450+ team members and 20,000+ customers; management stated it crossed $100 million in annual revenue in 2021 and reported ARR above $300 million in 2025. These figures are company-reported and not independently audited here.
Products / services. Luminati operates a commercial proxy and web-data collection platform. Its core offering is a residential proxy network built on peer-to-peer device bandwidth, supplemented by datacenter, ISP, and mobile proxy networks (reported at hundreds of millions of IPs). Adjacent products include automated web scrapers and a Web Scraper IDE, an "unblocker" for bot-protected sites, ready-made datasets, and retail/e-commerce data intelligence suites. Customers span e-commerce, market research, advertising, cybersecurity, and academic research.
Litigation posture. Luminati is an operating company, not a non-practicing entity. Its tracked appearances are limited: one plaintiff suit, Luminati Networks Ltd. v. BI Science (2009) Ltd., filed 2019-12-06 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division, and one PTAB matter, Code200, UAB et al. v. Luminati Networks Ltd., filed 2020-09-04, where Luminati appears as patent owner responding to an inter partes review petition. The Eastern District of Texas filing is consistent with Luminati's broader practice of enforcing its proxy-architecture patents in that venue.
Context. The PTAB matter arose from Luminati's parallel E.D. Tex. patent campaign against the Oxylabs/Coretech group (Tesonet, Teso LT, Code200, Metacluster, Oxysales) and the GeoSurf service, which also involved trade-secret claims over former employees. Public reporting indicates a 2021 jury verdict that the asserted patents were valid and infringed, later appealed; the IPRs proceeded separately. The case cluster reflects protection of the company's residential-proxy patent portfolio rather than assertion of acquired patents against unrelated defendants.
Inter partes review petition filed by Teso LT, UAB, Code200, UAB, Metacluster LT, UAB, and Oxysales, UAB against Luminati Networks Ltd. challenging U.S. Patent No. 10,637,968. The PTAB denied institution on June 2, 2021.
Inter partes review petition challenging claims 1-5, 9, 14, 17, 20-22, 25, and 27-30 of the '511 patent. The Board denied institution on April 20, 2021, based in part on the advanced stage of the parallel Code200 litigation.
Inter partes review petition filed by Code200, Teso, Metacluster, and Oxysales challenging claims of U.S. 10,469,614. The PTAB denied institution on February 16, 2021.