Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Company overview. Madwire, LLC is a privately held, private-equity-backed technology company headquartered in Fort Collins, Colorado (3405 S Timberline Rd), with an office in Austin, Texas. Founded in 2009 by brothers JB and Joe Kellogg, the company reports roughly 500–700 employees and says it serves over 20,000 active paid subscribers. Revenue is not publicly disclosed; third-party estimates vary widely (roughly $10M–$500M depending on source), and it has raised on the order of $23M–$31M from investors including Granite Creek Partners, Copley Equity Partners, Cypress Growth Capital, and CIBC Innovation Banking.
Products / services. Madwire is an operating company that provides business-management and digital-marketing software and services for small and medium-sized businesses and franchises. Its brands include Marketing 360®, Websites 360®, Top Rated Local®, and SpaceCraft™ (acquired in 2019). The platform covers website building, payment processing, lead and customer management (CRM), appointment scheduling, online review management, social media management, business-listings syndication, content marketing, and multi-channel digital advertising campaigns.
Patent-litigation posture. Madwire is a defendant, not an assertive litigant. In the tracked database it has 0 plaintiff cases and 1 defendant case — consistent with an operating company defending against an outside patent assertion rather than an NPE. The sole tracked case was filed in the Western District of Texas, a venue known for patent-plaintiff-friendly practices (it was assigned to Judge Alan D. Albright).
Notable case. Peter Henrik Pedersen v. Madwire, LLC (6:22-cv-00590, W.D. Tex., filed June 8, 2022) is the company's only tracked matter. Plaintiff Peter Pedersen is an individual patent owner characterized by the Stanford NPE Litigation Database and Unified Patents as a non-practicing entity; he alleged that Madwire's Marketing 360 email-marketing platform infringed U.S. Patent No. 6,965,920 ("Profile Responsive Electronic Message Management System"), a patent directed to centralized management of targeted electronic messages. Madwire answered in August 2022, and the case is now closed per court records. Madwire did not acquire or assert patents itself in any tracked matter.
Infringement action by Peter Henrik Pedersen against Madwire, LLC concerning US Patent 6,965,920. The case was pending, with answer deadlines extended as of mid-2022.