Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Social Bicycles, LLC (originally Social Bicycles, Inc.; commonly "SoBi," later rebranded JUMP Bikes / JUMP Mobility) is a Brooklyn, New York–based micromobility company founded in 2010 by former NYC transportation planner Ryan Rzepecki. Its headquarters were at 55 Prospect Street, Brooklyn. It was a venture-backed private company that raised roughly $11–14 million from investors including Menlo Ventures, SOSV and Esther Dyson, and was acquired by Uber Technologies in April 2018 in a deal reported at approximately $200 million in cash and stock; about 100 employees joined Uber. Crain's New York reported the company turned a profit on about $10 million in revenue in 2016. Uber later sold the JUMP business to Lime in 2020.
Products and operations. Social Bicycles developed "smart bike" bike-share technology: a proprietary GPS-equipped, app-activated locking unit mounted on the bicycle rather than at a docking station, which allowed dockless operation, plus the supporting software and fleet-management systems. It sold and operated bike-share programs for municipal, university and commercial customers in more than 40 markets worldwide — including Portland's Nike-sponsored Biketown, New Orleans, SoBi Hamilton (Ontario), and Brighton & Hove in the UK — and later operated its own electric-bike fleets (250-watt motor, ~19 mph assist) under the JUMP brand in cities such as Washington, D.C., San Francisco and Sacramento.
Litigation posture. The tracked data show one case, in which the company appears solely as a defendant: RideApp, Inc. v. Uber Technologies, Inc. et al., No. 1:19-cv-02507 (N.D. Ga., filed 2019-05-31), naming "Social Bicycles, LLC d/b/a Jump Bikes" alongside parent Uber. This is an operating company being sued, not an asserter.
Case context. Plaintiff RideApp is a Georgia-based patent-licensing entity associated with retired Georgia Tech professor Stephen Dickerson and litigator Marc Kasowitz; it asserted U.S. Patent 6,697,730 ("Communications and computing based urban transit system") against ride-hailing and bike-share operators, including Lyft, Motivate and Juno as well as Uber/Social Bicycles. The Northern District of Georgia is RideApp's home venue rather than a Texas forum.
Patent infringement action filed by RideApp against Uber Technologies, Inc. and Social Bicycles, LLC (d/b/a Jump Bikes) in the Northern District of Georgia; listed as pending with the final disposition not confirmed.