Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Note on entity type: "Meir, Adrian" is not an operating company or a patent-assertion vehicle — it is an individual named inventor in USPTO records. There is no corporate entity, headquarters, founding date, ownership structure, revenue, or headcount to report. Patent filings list Adrian Meir of Portland, Oregon as a named inventor on applications filed by and assigned to Nike, Inc. (Beaverton, Oregon); no public source identifies a business operated by him. Facts below are limited to what is verifiable.
Products / operations: None. Meir has no products or services; his inventive output is footwear textile technology owned by Nike. His patents cover knitted footwear components and the machinery to make them — integral knit tongues, tubular rib structures and webbed areas, lenticular (color-shifting) knit structures, and knitting-machine feeders, sinkers, and take-down assemblies. The patent at issue in the tracked case, U.S. 9,375,046 ("Article of Footwear Incorporating a Knitted Component"), issued from application 14/535,413 and belongs to the Nike Flyknit knitted-upper family.
Litigation posture: One tracked case, zero as plaintiff, one as defendant — consistent with an individual inventor named in a proceeding, not an active litigant. The sole entry is PTAB IPR2019-01059, PUMA North America, Inc. v. Meir, Adrian et al., filed May 2, 2019 and terminated as settled on December 2, 2019. PTAB and public dockets title that same proceeding PUMA North America, Inc. v. NIKE, Inc., with Meir appearing in the record as the '046 patent's named inventor. The patent owner of record is Nike, so the appearance in the database reflects an inventor-field entry rather than a personally held or asserted portfolio. He is neither a practicing entity nor an NPE.
Context: IPR2019-01059 was one of a May 2019 wave of PUMA petitions (roughly IPR2019-01042 through -01060) challenging Nike footwear patents during Nike, Inc. v. PUMA North America, Inc., No. 1:18-cv-10876 (D. Mass., filed May 3, 2018), which asserted Flyknit, Air, and cleat-assembly patents against PUMA's Proknit line. The IPRs terminated after the parties' December 2019 settlement. The '046 patent was later asserted by Nike against Lululemon (1:23-cv-00771, S.D.N.Y.) and in Nike's ITC action against adidas. No case in the data involves Meir asserting patents himself.
PUMA North America filed an inter partes review petition challenging U.S. 9,375,046. The proceeding was terminated as settled on December 3, 2019, with no final written decision on the merits.