Defendant
3 cases as defendant.
Company overview. R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company ("RRD"), founded in 1864 by Richard Robert Donnelley, is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Long publicly traded as NYSE: RRD, it went private in February 2022 when Chatham Asset Management acquired the company (roughly $10.85/share, ~$900 million) after a bidding war with Atlas Holdings. Public sources put headcount around 32,000–33,000 across roughly 28 countries, with annual revenue in the $4.6–5.4 billion range (Fortune cited $5.37B; Craft.co cited $4.6B for FY2023). Employee and revenue figures vary by source and year.
Products / services. RRD is an operating commercial printing and marketing-services company, not an NPE. Offerings span marketing and print solutions, packaging, direct mail and free-standing inserts, financial and compliance printing, labels, RFID/IoT solutions, creative execution, and supply-chain / business-process outsourcing. It serves healthcare, retail, financial services, education and life-sciences customers. It acquired the Valassis retail-insert business from Vericast in 2024 and Williams Lea in early 2025.
Patent-litigation posture. In the tracked data RRD appears in 3 cases, all as a defendant and none as plaintiff — the profile of an operating company being attacked rather than an aggressor. Note that the three entries share the same filing date (2017-02-02) and venue (N.D. Ill.), consistent with a single complaint.
Notable cases / context. All three tracked matters are RAH Color Technologies LLC v. R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. (N.D. Ill.). RAH Color Technologies, an Alexandria, Virginia LLC managed by inventor Dr. Richard A. Holub, owns a color-management patent portfolio and has asserted it against numerous printing and imaging companies (Adobe, Xerox, Quad/Graphics, X-Rite, EFI and others). Against RRD it asserted seven patents (including Nos. 6,995,870 and 7,729,008) over RRD's use of color measurement and management technology in print production. Venue was RRD's home district, the N.D. Ill., not a plaintiff-friendly venue such as the Eastern District of Texas. No case outcomes are stated in the tracked data.
RAH Color Technologies LLC asserted U.S. Patent 7,729,008 against R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. Outcome not verified in the narrative.
RAH Color Technologies LLC's complaint expressly listed the '546 patent among seven patents-in-suit against R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. The case was resolved and was not part of the later MDL.
Complaint asserts '870 among seven patents-in-suit.