Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Company overview. Meraki LLC is the legal entity behind Cisco Meraki, the cloud-managed networking business of Cisco Systems, Inc. Meraki was founded in 2006 in San Francisco by MIT graduate students (Sanjit Biswas, John Bicket, Hans Robertson) and was acquired by Cisco in 2012 for roughly $1.2 billion in cash and retention incentives. It is a Delaware limited liability company with a place of business at 500 Terry A. Francois Blvd, San Francisco, CA 94158, and is a wholly owned Cisco subsidiary; Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) does not break out Meraki revenue or headcount in its 10-K, though it reports Meraki-branded switching, wireless, vision (camera), and IoT product categories. At acquisition Meraki had about 330 employees and an approximately $100 million bookings run-rate. Third-party estimates now place the unit above $1 billion in annual revenue, but no audited public figure exists.
Products / services. Meraki sells cloud-managed IT hardware and software controlled through a centralized web dashboard: wireless access points, campus and stackable switches, SD-WAN/security appliances, MV smart cameras, MT environmental sensors, and MDM/endpoint management, targeted largely at mid-market, retail, education, and distributed-branch customers.
Patent-litigation posture. The tracked data shows Meraki LLC as a defendant in one case and as a plaintiff in none — the profile of an operating company on the receiving end of an assertion, not an NPE. The suit was filed in the Western District of Texas, Waco Division (Judge Alan Albright), a plaintiff-friendly venue in which the NPE filed a parallel wave of complaints against Apple, Amazon/eero, Microsoft, Samsung, Dell, HP, and Asustek.
Notable case. XR Communications, LLC d/b/a Vivato Technologies v. Cisco Systems, Inc. et al., No. 6:21-cv-00623 (W.D. Tex., filed June 16, 2021), names Cisco and Meraki as co-defendants. XR Communications is a non-practicing entity that acquired the patent portfolio of defunct wireless-infrastructure startup Vivato Technologies (founded 2000, backed by Aequitas Capital) and asserts MIMO/beamforming and adaptively-steered-antenna patents. Meraki was served on June 24, 2021 and answered jointly with Cisco. No merits conclusions are drawn here.
2021 wireless networking campaign case in W.D. Tex. against Cisco and Meraki; a claim-construction order was entered 2022-09-30. Listed by XR as involving the '376 patent in IPR2022-00613 mandatory notices.