Defendant

MARA Holdings Inc.

1 case as defendant.

Cases
1
Active
1
0 closed
Filed
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Top venue
W.D. Texas
1 case

Company profile

MARA Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: MARA) — formerly Marathon Digital Holdings, Inc., renamed in August 2024 — is a publicly traded digital-asset compute and energy/infrastructure company headquartered in Hallandale Beach, Florida, incorporated in 2010. It is not a subsidiary. Headcount is small relative to revenue: the FY2024 10-K reports roughly 150–270 employees depending on source and reporting date, with FY2024 revenue of about $656 million.

Operations. MARA's core business is industrial-scale bitcoin mining. Per its FY2024 10-K, it operated approximately 400,000 mining rigs with about 53.2 EH/s energized across 16 data centers in North America, the Middle East, Europe and Latin America, mining 9,430 BTC during 2024 and holding roughly 44,893 BTC at year-end under a HODL strategy. Adjacent lines include an in-house mining pool, miner firmware (MARAFW), liquid-immersion cooling, the Anduro sidechain/ALYS platform, Kaspa mining, sale of data-center infrastructure, and owned power generation (including a Texas wind farm and flared-gas sites). It also builds out AI/HPC capacity. This is an operating company, not a shell licensor.

Litigation posture. The tracked data show MARA as a defendant in 1 case and plaintiff in 0 — the profile of an operating company being attacked, not an active enforcer. There is no evidence MARA asserts patents offensively.

Notable case. Malikie Innovations Ltd. (and Key Patent Innovations Ltd.) v. MARA Holdings, Inc., No. 7:25-cv-00222 (W.D. Tex., Midland-Odessa Division, Waco for Markman). Malikie is an Irish NPE and subsidiary of Key Patent Innovations that acquired roughly 32,000 former BlackBerry patents for about $200 million in 2023; Unified Patents and IAM describe it as an NPE monetization vehicle. The suit asserts cryptographic/finite-field and public-key-generation patents (e.g., U.S. 7,372,960; 7,372,961; 8,666,062; 8,532,286; 10,284,370), targeting MARA's Bitcoin-protocol mining hardware, nodes and wallets. MARA has pursued ex parte reexaminations at the USPTO and moved to stay the case pending reexamination. The Western District of Texas is a plaintiff-friendly patent venue.