Defendant
1 case as defendant.
I'll research MetTel, Inc. before writing the profile.
Let me verify the litigation context and a few more corporate details.
Company overview. MetTel, Inc. is the trade name of Manhattan Telecommunications Corporation, founded in 1996 and headquartered at 55 Water Street, New York City. It is privately held and, per PitchBook, formerly PE-backed; Crunchbase and PitchBook list founder Marshall Aronow as CEO. PitchBook puts headcount at roughly 727 (2025), with other databases reporting bands of about 500–1,000. Revenue is not publicly disclosed and third-party estimates vary widely and unreliably (published guesses range from ~$300M to figures in the billions); no audited figure is available.
Products / services / operations. MetTel is an operating company, not an NPE. It provides managed communications and digital-transformation services to enterprises and government agencies, delivered over a proprietary private network. Offerings include voice and SIP services, data networking and SD-WAN/SASE, wireless and mobility management, cloud services, IoT connectivity, network security, and POTS-replacement/regulatory services. Its MetTel Portal platform lets customers manage inventory, usage, spend, and repairs. It has appeared in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Managed Network Services. It holds government contracts and serves sectors including retail, healthcare, finance, and the public sector.
Patent-litigation posture. MetTel appears once in the tracked data, as a defendant in Lab Technology LLC v. MetTel, Inc. (D. Del.), with zero plaintiff-side suits — the profile of an operating company targeted by an assertion entity rather than an active two-way litigant. Plaintiff Lab Technology LLC is characterized as a non-practicing entity by the Stanford NPE Litigation Database and by Unified Patents, which has challenged at least one of its patents in an ex parte reexamination. The case was filed in the District of Delaware; Lab Technology has also filed in plaintiff-friendlier venues including the Eastern District of Texas and the Southern District of Florida.
Notable case context. The MetTel suit (No. 1:26-cv-01120, filed September 4, 2026) asserts U.S. Patent No. 8,503,973, "Method and system for obtaining emergency caller location," a 2005-priority patent relating to E911/VoIP caller-location updates. Lab Technology has asserted overlapping patents against telecom and communications defendants including Verizon, Amazon, Mitel, u-blox, Everbridge, Sangoma, and 3CX, with several cases resolved by early voluntary dismissal or settlement. No merits ruling involving MetTel is on the public record.