Defendant
2 cases as defendant.
Company overview. SportsCastr, Inc., doing business as Panda Interactive, is a private, venture-backed sports-streaming and betting-technology company. It was founded in 2016 (originally as a fan/athlete live-commentary streaming app) and is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada (1810 East Sahara Ave.), after earlier years in New York. No employee count or revenue figures are publicly disclosed; PitchBook lists it as venture-capital-backed with six investors, including the NFL Players Association, SGI Merchant Banking, IdeaQuest, and New Alchemy.
Products / operations. SportsCastr has pivoted from its consumer app into B2B "Watch & Bet" technology. Its flagship product, PANDA Studio, is an enterprise-grade platform that lets sportsbooks, leagues, and media companies overlay real-time betting odds and commerce onto live or on-demand video. It also sells PANDA CUB, an AI-driven ad-tech product that enriches sports articles with live odds and geo-targeted betting affiliate links. The company says it is licensed as an online sports-betting vendor/supplier in more than half a dozen U.S. states. It is an operating company with real products, not a patent-assertion entity.
Patent-litigation posture. The tracked database shows SportsCastr as a defendant in one case: Sportradar US LLC et al. v. SportsCastr, Inc. d/b/a Panda Interactive (E.D. Tex., filed April 4, 2025), a declaratory-judgment action transferred from Delaware under the first-to-file rule; it was dismissed without prejudice on April 14, 2025. The company is better characterized as an active patentee: in October 2023 it sued Sportradar Group AG and Genius Sports in the Eastern District of Texas (2:23-cv-00471/00472), asserting patents on low-latency, synchronized live-streaming with embedded betting data (U.S. 10,805,687; 11,039,218; 10,425,697; 11,871,088). The case cluster sits before Judge Rodney Gilstrap in Marshall, Texas — a plaintiff-friendly patent venue.
Context. Panda amended its E.D. Tex. suits in 2025 to add antitrust tying claims against Sportradar and Genius, and Sportradar separately petitioned the PTAB (IPR2025-00269) challenging one of the asserted patents. According to Sportradar's SEC filings, the parties reached a settlement in March 2026, with Panda dismissing its claims.
Inter partes review petition by Sportradar AG et al. against SportsCastr Inc. d/b/a PANDA Interactive challenging US 10,805,687. Institution was denied on discretionary grounds on June 25, 2025.
Inter partes review petition by Genius Sports Ltd. against SportsCastr Inc. d/b/a PANDA Interactive challenging US 10,805,687. A Final Written Decision issued per the Google Patents record.