Robocast, Inc.

Robocast, Inc. is a privately held company founded in 1997 by inventor Damon C. Torres and headquartered at 244 Madison Ave, New York, NY (it also lists an Eagle, Idaho location). It is not public; filings show small-scale venture backing (including Brown Venture Group and Warecorp) and staffing in the single digits, so revenue is not meaningfully disclosed. Torres is founder, Chairman/CEO, and sole named inventor on the portfolio.

Products / operations. Robocast describes itself today primarily as a licensor of patented "automated browsing"/playlist methods — marketed as "AutoPlay for Streaming" and the "Play the Web"/"Automate the Net" marks — with products such as RoboSearch, RoboGuide, RoboFeedr, RobocastSocial and RoboPlayer described as in development. Its five US patents (US 7,155,451; 8,606,819; 8,606,820; 8,738,655; 8,965,932), filed from a 1996 provisional, cover automatically sequencing and displaying web content. The patents expired in 2017 ('819/'932) and 2020 ('451). Stanford's NPE database classifies Robocast as a "patent asserter," and its licensing program (e.g., a 2016 Vevo license) centers on the portfolio rather than a shipped operating product.

Litigation posture. The case data shows 4 plaintiff suits versus 2 defendant matters; the two "defendant" entries are PTAB inter partes reviews brought against its patents, so Robocast is best characterized as a portfolio-asserting licensor/NPE rather than a two-way operating litigant. Suits have clustered in the District of Delaware, not the Eastern District of Texas.

Notable cases. Robocast sued Microsoft (2010) and Apple (2011) on the '451 patent; both settled around 2014. In March 2022 it filed parallel Delaware suits against Netflix and YouTube/Google on the '451, '819 and '932 patents. Netflix's IPRs and a Unified Patents IPR challenged the patents; in February 2025 the court granted Netflix summary judgment of invalidity under Alice, and the YouTube action was stayed.