The Individuals, Corporations, ... Identified on Schedule A

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This is a litigation caption, not a company. "The Individuals, Corporations, Limited Liability Companies, Partnerships, and Unincorporated Associates Identified on Schedule A" is the standard placeholder caption used in "Schedule A" intellectual-property cases, in which one plaintiff sues dozens or hundreds of unidentified online sellers and lists their aliases, store names, and URLs in a sealed schedule instead of naming them in the complaint. No such entity exists as a legal person, so there is no headquarters, founding year, ownership status, headcount, or revenue to report — those facts are, by design, unknown and sealed.

Its single tracked appearance. The database's one record is CAO Group, Inc. v. The Individuals, Corporations, ... Identified on Schedule A, N.D. Ill. No. 1:24-cv-01211, filed 2024-02-12. The entry counts this caption as one defendant, which understates the case: the sealed Schedule A covered numerous separate seller defendants, several of whom were dismissed voluntarily, others defaulted, and some (the "Kalberg Defendants") appeared and counterclaimed for declaratory judgment of non-infringement.

The real party is the plaintiff. CAO Group, Inc. is a privately held operating company in West Jordan, Utah, founded in 2000 by Dr. Densen Cao, inventor of the first LED dental curing light. It manufactures dental diode lasers, curing lights, teeth-whitening products, and related devices — its dental business consolidated under the AMD Lasers, Inc. subsidiary effective March 1, 2024 — plus veterinary, forensic, and solid-state lighting lines. Third-party databases list roughly 100–250 employees (PitchBook: ~103); no verified revenue figure is public. Stanford's NPE database classifies CAO Group as a practicing entity.

Litigation posture. CAO is an operating company asserting its own patents, not an NPE. Its N.D. Ill. campaign asserts patents on peroxide gel compositions for teeth-whitening products, including U.S. Pat. No. 11,202,752 and additional patents added by amended complaints. The venue is significant: Schedule A cases concentrate in N.D. Ill., valued by plaintiffs for ex parte TROs and marketplace account freezes, though several judges there have recently questioned mass joinder and sealing.