Plano Encryption Technologies, LLC v. Match.com, LLC
Terminated- Docket:
- 2:16-cv-01094-JRG
- Filed:
- 2016-10-04
PET infringement action against Match.com, LLC (IAC) in the Eastern District of Texas, part of the campaign involving U.S. 5,974,550.
Defendant
Match.com, LLC
1 case as defendant.
- Cases
- 1
- Active
- 0
- 1 closed
- Filed
- 2016
- Top venue
- E.D. Texas
- 1 case
Company profile
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Match.com, LLC — Company Profile
Company overview. Match.com, LLC was the operating subsidiary behind Match.com, the online dating site launched in 1995 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas (8750 N. Central Expressway). It is part of Match Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: MTCH), the publicly traded dating-portfolio company that separated from IAC/InterActiveCorp in 2020. Per FTC court filings, Match.com, LLC was later renamed Match Group, LLC, and that entity was renamed Tinder LLC in May 2024; the Match.com platform is now operated primarily through Match Group Americas, LLC. Match Group reported approximately $3.48 billion in total revenue for FY2024 and roughly 2,500 full-time employees.
Products / services. Match.com is an operating consumer-internet business, not a shell or patent holder. It runs a subscription and freemium online dating service — profile search, algorithmic matching, and one-to-one video — under the Match brand, part of Match Group's "Evergreen & Emerging" segment. Parent Match Group's wider portfolio includes Tinder, Hinge, Meetic, OkCupid, Pairs, Plenty of Fish, Azar, and BLK, available in over 40 languages.
Patent-litigation posture. Match.com appears in the tracked data once, solely as a defendant (0 plaintiff cases, 1 defendant case) — the profile of an operating company being attacked, not an asserter. That suit was filed in the plaintiff-friendly U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (Marshall Division, Judge Rodney Gilstrap).
Notable case. Plano Encryption Technologies, LLC v. Match.com, LLC, No. 2:16-cv-01094 (E.D. Tex., filed Oct. 4, 2016; closed July 10, 2017). Plaintiff PET is a Texas patent-assertion entity formed in March 2015 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Koba Holdings, LLC, with one employee/officer; RPX and Federal Circuit opinions describe its sole business as licensing and litigating patents. PET asserted two Intel-origin patents — U.S. 5,991,399 and 5,974,550, covering digital content protection and remote security protocols — against mobile apps, part of a campaign that also targeted Groupon, JCPenney, State Farm, Best Buy, Etsy, and Shutterfly.
Sources: Match Group 10-K (FY2024) and mtch.com; FTC v. Match Group filings; RPX Insight/RPX Empower; Unified Patents/PTAB IPR2017-01783 records; Federal Circuit, Jack Henry & Associates v. Plano Encryption Technologies.