Defendant
4 cases as defendant.
Monument Peak Ventures, LLC ("MPV") is a Texas limited liability company formed in December 2016. Its registered place of business has been listed at 1400 Preston Rd., Suite 475, Plano, Texas, and later 200 Crescent Court, Suite 1550, Dallas, Texas. It is a patent-holding and licensing vehicle affiliated with Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC (Dominion Harbor Group), the patent-monetization firm founded by former IPNav CEO David Pridham. Certificates of interested parties identify its parent as Monument Patent Holdings, LLC. It is privately held and has no public ticker. No verified employee count or revenue figures are available; public sources describe it as a shell holding entity rather than an operating business.
MPV has no products, services, or operations. It is a non-practicing entity that acquires patent portfolios and licenses or litigates them. Its principal asset is a large portfolio of former Eastman Kodak digital-imaging patents obtained from Intellectual Ventures LLC in February 2017, covering topics such as digital camera capture, image processing and color editing, object detection, image organization, and camera power/control features. Patent-data aggregators list roughly 1,100-plus US assets associated with the entity. Dominion Harbor's own portfolio page describes MPV as holding Kodak's digital-imaging patents.
Litigation posture. MPV is a one-directional patent assertion entity. In the tracked data it appears as plaintiff in 9 cases and as defendant in 4. Those four defensive appearances are not evidence of operating activity: they consist of IPR petitions filed against MPV patents (Toshiba America Electronic Components, General Electric) and declaratory-judgment actions brought by Xerox in the Western District of New York and the Southern District of New York. The plaintiff-side filings cluster in the Eastern District of Texas (Marshall Division), a historically plaintiff-friendly venue, along with California and Delaware.
Notable matters. MPV's assertion campaign began in March 2018 with suits against GoPro (D. Del., over camera touch/voice-control and imaging patents) and DJI, and expanded to GE Healthcare (S.D. Cal., 2018), Toshiba (C.D. Cal., 2019), Xerox (E.D. Tex., 2021), Kyocera (E.D. Tex., 2023), and TCL Electronics (E.D. Tex., 2024). Xerox's 2020 DJ complaint describes MPV as one of many Dominion Harbor assertion entities and states the asserted Kodak camera patents were being read onto office printers. Unified Patents has run prior-art (PATROLL) contests against several MPV-owned patents, characterizing it as an NPE and Dominion Harbor entity. The merits of individual cases are not assessed here.
Toshiba petitioned for inter partes review of US 7,583,294. The institution decision issued June 25, 2021; sources conflict on whether institution was denied or instituted/pending.
Xerox filed a declaratory-judgment action against Monument Peak Ventures in the Western District of New York, putting US 6,873,336 and seven other patents at issue. The court initially denied MPV's motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction without prejudice, then on August 31, 2021 granted the motion and transferred the case to the Eastern District of Texas.
General Electric Co., with GE Healthcare, petitioned for inter partes review of U.S. 7,092,573 against Monument Peak Ventures, LLC. The Board denied institution on September 23, 2019.
Xerox Corporation filed a declaratory-judgment action against Monument Peak Ventures, LLC in the Southern District of New York before MPV's Texas suit. MPV moved to dismiss, the court issued a mixed ruling, venue was contested, and the matter appears to have been resolved together with the parties' settlement and the dismissal of the Texas action.