Opodo Limited (trading as Opodo) is a UK-incorporated online travel agency, company number 04051797, incorporated 8 August 2000 and launched in 2001 by a consortium of nine European airlines with Amadeus. Its registered office is at 12 Hammersmith Grove, London, while the brand's operational headquarters sit with its parent in Barcelona. Opodo is a wholly owned subsidiary of eDreams ODIGEO S.A., listed on the Bolsa de Madrid (ticker EDR) since April 2014. The Opodo Limited legal entity is small in its own right (UK filings show roughly £3.1M turnover and single-digit headcount in its most recent accounts); the group is the relevant operating scale, with eDreams ODIGEO reporting about €621M revenue for its 2024 financial year.
Products / services. Opodo operates consumer travel websites and mobile apps across roughly 16 markets. Offerings include flight bookings sourced from 600-plus airlines, hotels, car rental, rail, dynamic flight-plus-hotel packages and travel insurance, alongside its Opodo Prime paid subscription program (the group reports 7.7M+ Prime members). It is an operating intermediary, not a patent-holding entity.
Patent-litigation posture. Opodo appears in the database solely as a defendant (1 case, 0 as plaintiff), consistent with an operating company defending against an assertion entity rather than a licensor or two-way litigant. The single tracked matter was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division — a venue historically favored by patent plaintiffs.
Notable case. InternetAd Systems, LLC v. Opodo Ltd., 481 F. Supp. 2d 596 (N.D. Tex. 2007). The court addressed whether InternetAd — a licensing vehicle tied to TechSearch and, later, Acacia Research — held sufficient rights to sue as exclusive licensee under patents covering interstitial and pop-up internet advertising (e.g., U.S. 5,572,643). The opinion is frequently cited on licensee standing and discusses NPEs. InternetAd filed a related wave of N.D. Tex. suits against web publishers including ESPN, The New York Times, Travelocity and Turner Broadcasting.