Defendant
5 cases as defendant.
Mobile Tech, Inc. (MTI) — also known as Mobile Technologies Inc. and formerly Merchandising Technologies, Inc. — is a privately held, private-equity-backed manufacturer headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon (1050 NW 229th Ave). It was founded in 1977 (some databases list 1979) and has substantial operations in the U.S., with offices in London and Hong Kong. Vestar Capital Partners acquired the company from Hammond, Kennedy, Whitney & Company in August 2016; PTAB filings identify related holding entities (MTI Buyer, MTI Intermediate, Mobile Tech Holdings) and note an indirect ownership interest by MC Credit Partners as of 2020. Third-party data aggregators estimate roughly 850–900 employees and revenue in the $90M–$120M range, but the company is private and does not publish financials, so these figures are unverified.
MTI designs and sells retail merchandising security and display hardware and related software: anti-theft display mounts, alarming power and tether cables, retractable-cable systems, smart locks and access control, tablet cases, enclosures, docking stations, kiosks and carts, plus wireless/IoT store-analytics nodes. It also provides field services — installation, preventive maintenance, and break-fix support — for retail, healthcare, hospitality and manufacturing customers. It is an operating company, not a patent assertion entity; Stanford's NPE litigation database classifies it as a "Product company."
Litigation posture is an active two-way dispute with one direct competitor rather than NPE-driven. All nine tracked matters involve InVue Security Products Inc. MTI appears as plaintiff in six (mostly inter partes review petitions at the PTAB challenging InVue patents, plus appeals) and as defendant in three (InVue's infringement suits, notably the W.D.N.C. actions and InVue's 2019 D. Oregon suit over U.S. Patents 9,830,787 and 10,055,954 asserting products such as the "Freedom Micro" and "AirTether"). Cases also appear in the N.D. California and the Federal Circuit; none cluster in the Eastern District of Texas. The technology at issue is retail merchandise security hardware and alarming-cable systems.
Appeal by InVue Security Products Inc. from PTAB IPR2018-00481 involving U.S. Patent No. 9,576,452. Filed September 18, 2019; available sources did not confirm a disposition.
N.D. Cal. action associated in Google Patents litigation data with U.S. 9,478,110 and its family. The narrative states that the '110 patent linkage for this case is not independently confirmed, because the cited Unified Patents entry appears on a 9,135,800-filtered list.
Patent infringement suit asserting US 8,884,762 and US 9,135,800. Consolidated with 3:16-cv-00734, stayed pending IPR, then transferred to D. Or. on 2017-08-30.
InVue appealed the PTAB's Final Written Decision in IPR2017-00344 and IPR2017-00345 invalidating claims 1-29 of US 9,396,631. The Federal Circuit affirmed via Rule 36 judgment on July 12, 2019.
InVue appealed the PTAB final written decisions in IPR2016-00898 and IPR2016-00899 (the '247 patent) and related IPRs. The Federal Circuit affirmed in a Rule 36 per curiam judgment, finally cancelling claims 1-37 of US 9,269,247.