Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.
Voluntary dismissal- Docket:
- 1:22-cv-00014
- Court:
- D. Del. (Judge Andrews)
- Filed:
- 2022-01-04
- Terminated:
- 2022-01-12
Patents:6972790
Voluntary dismissal 2022-01-12; case terminated.
Defendant
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.
1 case as defendant.
- Cases
- 1
- Active
- 0
- 1 closed
- Filed
- 2022
- Top venue
- D Del Judge Andrews
- 1 case
Company profile
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. (MGM) — Full legal name Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., commonly styled Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. and shorted to "MGM." Founded April 17, 1924, headquartered at MGM Place, 245 N. Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, California (some listings say Culver City, site of its historic studio lot). MGM is not independently traded: Amazon acquired its parent, MGM Holdings Inc., for $8.45 billion, closing March 17, 2022, and absorbed MGM Holdings into Amazon Studios on October 3, 2023, forming Amazon MGM Studios. As a subsidiary, MGM's standalone headcount and revenue are not separately disclosed by Amazon; MGM Holdings reported roughly $1.3 billion in revenue for 2017 in pre-acquisition filings (per Wikipedia's infobox citing SEC filings), and no reliable current figure exists.
Operations. MGM is a film and television production and distribution business — an operating studio, not a shell. Its library is commonly cited at about 4,000 film titles and 17,000 TV episodes, including the James Bond, Rocky, Pink Panther, Legally Blonde, RoboCop, and Tomb Raider franchises, plus television properties such as The Handmaid's Tale, Vikings, Shark Tank, Survivor, and The Real Housewives. Units have included MGM Television, MGM Home Entertainment, Orion Pictures, and the MGM+ (formerly Epix) pay-TV network. Amazon's stated rationale was the depth of this catalog for Prime Video.
Litigation posture. The tracked data show a single case, with MGM as defendant and zero plaintiff cases — the signature of an operating company targeted rather than a litigant asserting patents. That case is Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., filed January 4, 2022 in the District of Delaware before Judge Andrews. Cedar Lane is widely characterized as a non-practicing entity: Unified Patents labels it an "NPE (Patent Assertion Entity)," Stanford's NPE database lists it as a non-practicing entity using acquired patents, and a Korean IP office survey reports it was formed in 2019 in British Columbia and asserts patents acquired from Intellectual Ventures and others, chiefly in imaging and audio-video processing.
Context. The suit was filed roughly two months before Amazon's acquisition of MGM closed. Delaware — not the Eastern or Western District of Texas — is the venue here, though it is also a common NPE forum.