Macy's.com LLC is the e-commerce operator for its parent, the publicly-traded national retailer Macy's, Inc. (NYSE: M). The parent company, which also owns Bloomingdale's and Bluemercury, is headquartered in New York, New York. Macy's, Inc. was founded in 1929 as Federated Department Stores, Inc., which acquired the original R.H. Macy & Co. (founded in 1858) in 1994 and later adopted its name. As of January 2026, the parent company had approximately 90,000 employees and reported revenue of $22.71 billion for the trailing twelve months.
Macys.com is the online sales channel for the Macy's department store brand. It offers a wide range of retail goods, including women's and men's clothing, footwear, accessories, cosmetics, home goods, and furniture. Alongside its physical stores, macys.com is a core component of the company's "omnichannel" strategy, which integrates its physical and digital retail operations. The website and corresponding mobile applications facilitate direct-to-consumer sales, in-store pickup, and management of customer loyalty programs and credit accounts.
As an operating company, Macy's.com's patent litigation posture is that of a defendant. The provided data shows it has been a defendant in one tracked case and has not appeared as a plaintiff. This is typical for large retailers, which are frequently targeted by non-practicing entities (NPEs). The company's legal disputes often involve technologies ancillary to its core retail business, such as the e-commerce and mobile payment systems used in its operations.
The single tracked case, Monticello Enterprises LLC v. Petco Animals Supply Stores Inc et al., filed in the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, names Macys.com and its parent as co-defendants alongside other major retailers like Petco and Starbucks. The plaintiff, Monticello Enterprises LLC, is a patent assertion entity. The patents in this campaign relate to systems for processing in-app and mobile payments. Unified Patents, an anti-NPE organization, challenged one of the patents asserted against Macy's and its co-defendants, resulting in a final rejection of the challenged claims by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.