Defendant
3 cases as defendant.
Company overview. R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, commonly RR Donnelley or RRD, is a Chicago-based marketing, printing and business-communications company founded in 1864. It was long listed on the NYSE (ticker RRD) until affiliates of Chatham Asset Management acquired it in an all-cash deal completed February 25, 2022 (approximately $897 million equity value; about $2.3 billion enterprise value), ending a bidding contest with Atlas Holdings. It is now privately held by Chatham. Public filings and press describe roughly 33,000 employees, about 30,000 clients and operations across 28–30 countries; revenue was about $4.8 billion in 2020 and roughly $5.4 billion in 2021, per company filings and Fortune.
Products / services. RRD provides multichannel marketing and business-communications services: commercial printing (catalogs, magazines, books, retail inserts, direct mail), packaging and labels (including clinical labeling under its United Ad Label business), premedia and creative/marketing services, supply-chain, kitting and fulfillment/logistics, and financial printing — it acts as an SEC filing agent handling securities filings for corporate clients. It is a global print/packaging and marketing-services operator, not a patent holding company.
Patent-litigation posture. RRD appears in the database only as a defendant (3 of 3 tracked cases; 0 as plaintiff), consistent with an operating company defending against patent assertions rather than asserting patents itself. All three entries are the same February 2, 2017 case filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (Chicago), likely duplicated across records.
Notable case and context. The tracked matter is RAH Color Technologies LLC v. R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company. RAH Color Technologies is a Virginia limited liability company owned by inventor Dr. Richard A. Holub and formed in 2005 as a licensing vehicle; it holds a large portfolio of color-management, color-calibration and networked color-reproduction patents and has asserted them against imaging and printing vendors including Adobe, Xerox, EFI and Heidelberger Druckmaschinen, with several disputes centralized in N.D. Cal. MDL No. 2874. The patents asserted against RRD include U.S. Nos. 6,995,870, 7,312,897, 7,729,008, 8,760,704, 7,830,546, 8,817,314 and 8,537,357. The venue is Illinois, not the Eastern District of Texas.
RAH Color Technologies LLC sued R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company in the Northern District of Illinois, asserting seven patents including US 8,537,357. The terminal disposition was not captured from the retrieved sources.
RAH Color Technologies LLC sued R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company in the Northern District of Illinois; the '314 patent was one of seven asserted patents. The outcome was not confirmed in the narrative.
The '704 patent was named as one of seven patents-in-suit. Outcome was not confirmed in the sources retrieved, but the case is generally reported as settling.