Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Company overview. Telegram Messenger, LLP is the UK-registered entity (incorporated February 2014 in London, company number OC391410, registered at 71–75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden) through which the Telegram messaging service was operated. It shares the "Telegram" name with the broader service founded in 2013 by brothers Pavel and Nikolai Durov. The operating group is privately held and wholly controlled by Pavel Durov, headquartered in Dubai, UAE, with incorporation in the British Virgin Islands; it is not publicly listed. Financial Times-reported investor documents put 2024 revenue at ~$1.4B, first-time net profit ~$540M, and monthly active users above 1 billion, run by a small internal team (reported around 60 staff, with moderation largely outsourced). Third-party trackers vary widely on headcount.
Products / services / operations. Telegram operates a cloud-based, cross-platform instant-messaging and social service: one-to-one and group messaging (groups up to large member counts), channels, voice and video calls, file and media sharing, cloud storage, bots, and "mini apps." Revenue comes from Telegram Premium subscriptions, channel advertising, and "partnerships and ecosystem" activity tied to mini-app developers and the Ton blockchain/Toncoin. It is an operating company, not a shell.
Patent-litigation posture. The tracked data show one case, in which the company is a defendant (0 as plaintiff), consistent with an operating company targeted by a patent assertion entity rather than an active two-way litigant. The single suit was filed in the plaintiff-friendly Eastern District of Texas.
Notable case. Uniloc USA, Inc. et al v. Telegram Messenger, LLP, No. 2:16-cv-00892 (E.D. Tex., Marshall Division), filed August 11, 2016, and closed in 2017. Plaintiffs Uniloc USA and Uniloc Luxembourg asserted patents including U.S. 8,724,622; 8,995,433; 7,535,890; 8,199,747; and 8,243,723, targeting instant voice-messaging functionality in the Telegram app. Uniloc is widely characterized (e.g., by Stanford's NPE Litigation Database) as a patent asserter relying on acquired and corporate-heritage patents.
Note: the case involves the LLP entity name specifically; some corporate details above relate to the Telegram group generally.