Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Phytech US, Inc.
Voluntary dismissal- Docket:
- 1:22-cv-00054
- Court:
- D. Del. (Judge Andrews)
- Filed:
- 2022-01-13
- Terminated:
- 2022-02-15
Patents:6972790
Voluntary dismissal; terminated 2022-02-15.
Defendant
Phytech US, Inc.
1 case as defendant.
- Cases
- 1
- Active
- 0
- 1 closed
- Filed
- 2022
- Top venue
- D Del Judge Andrews
- 1 case
Company profile
Phytech US, Inc. is the U.S. operating subsidiary of Phytech Ltd., an Israeli digital-agriculture ("agtech") company. The U.S. entity is registered as a foreign profit corporation with a principal office at 1141 E Batavia Ct, Tulare, California. The parent was founded in 2011 (predecessor technology dates to the late 1990s), is privately held, and is headquartered in Israel (variously reported as Kfar Saba, Rosh Haayin, or the Tel Aviv area). Phytech employs roughly 200 people; public databases report total funding in the $35–53M range, with investors including Syngenta Group Ventures, Mitsui, Tencent, and Thomas H. Lee Partners. In 2024, irrigation manufacturer Rivulis took a shareholder stake and folded its Manna precision-irrigation subsidiary into Phytech. Revenue and valuation are not publicly disclosed.
Products / operations. Phytech sells an IoT precision-irrigation platform for permanent-crop growers (fruit, nuts, commodity crops). Hardware includes trunk/fruit dendrometers and soil, climate, and hydraulic sensors; software converts sensor data into irrigation and fertigation recommendations delivered via mobile/web. It also monitors and automates irrigation infrastructure (tanks, pumps, filters, valves) and launched an AI-based irrigation advisor in 2025. The company states its service covers over 1,000 growers, ~45 million trees, and ~18,000 sites across the U.S., Australia, Israel, and Latin America.
Litigation posture. Phytech US is an operating company, not an NPE. In the tracked data it appears twice — as defendant in both — and never as plaintiff. Both suits were filed by Cedar Lane Technologies Inc., a prolific Canadian patent-assertion entity identified as an NPE by Unified Patents and Stanford's NPE Litigation Database. The two cases are:
- Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Phytech US, Inc. — D. Del. (Judge Andrews), filed 2022-01-13
- Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Phytech US Inc. — E.D. Va.
Context. The filings are part of Cedar Lane's high-volume, acquired-portfolio campaign (largely patents originating with Intellectual Ventures entities) targeting a broad range of technology companies; Cedar Lane's suits typically resolve early and rarely reach trial. Both Phytech cases appear to be defensive, one-way matters. No outcome or merits detail for either case is reflected in the tracked data.