Defendant
3 cases as defendant.
Company overview. WAG Acquisition, L.L.C. (styled "WAG Acquisition, LLC") is a Delaware limited liability company that functions as a patent assertion/licensing vehicle. It has no verified public headquarters; litigation filings indicate its records and evidence are located in the New Jersey/Pennsylvania area. The company publishes no financials, and no revenue, employee, or market-cap figures are publicly available — consistent with its status as a non-practicing entity. Unified Patents' PTAB database classifies WAG as an "NPE (Small Company)."
Products / services / operations. WAG has no operating business or products. Its sole asset is a family of streaming-media patents — including U.S. Patent Nos. 8,327,011 ("Streaming Media Buffering System"), 8,364,839, 8,185,611, 9,742,824, 9,729,594, 9,762,636, and 10,567,453 — covering buffering and delivery of audio/video streams over the internet. The patents trace to technology developed by SurferNETWORK (inventor Harold Price) with a September 2000 priority date and were later acquired by WAG. PatSnap describes the entity as a "patent assertion entity" and "streaming media patent licensing entity."
Patent-litigation posture. WAG is an NPE asserting an acquired portfolio. In the tracked data it appears as plaintiff in 3 district-court suits (against Disney in the Central District of California in October 2021; against Amazon and Google in the Western District of Texas, Waco Division, in August 2021) and as defendant in 3 PTAB proceedings — IPRs filed by Amazon, Google, and Disney in 2022 challenging those same patents. Its 2021 Waco filings targeted a venue known for plaintiff-friendly patent dockets.
Notable cases / context. The high-profile suits targeted major streaming services (Disney+, Amazon, YouTube/Google). Beyond the tracked docket, WAG has a broader enforcement history against webcam/live-streaming operators in the Eastern District of Texas and elsewhere (e.g., Technius/stripchat.com, Friendfinder Networks, Beronata), with several cases ending in with-prejudice dismissals consistent with licensing settlements. In August 2026 the Federal Circuit affirmed PTAB's invalidation of claims of the '011 patent as anticipated — a notable setback for the portfolio. Earlier IPRs (WebPower, Accretive Technology Group, Friendfinder) largely ended in procedural termination.
Amazon petitioned for inter partes review of the '636 patent; the PTAB's Final Written Decision determined all challenged claims unpatentable.
Google petitioned for inter partes review of the '636 patent; the PTAB's Final Written Decision determined all challenged claims unpatentable.
Disney petitioned for inter partes review of the '636 patent; the PTAB issued a Final Written Decision finding challenged claims of the '636 patent unpatentable.