Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. is the principal national-bank subsidiary of Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC), a US global systemically important bank. The bank traces to 1852 and holds a national charter dating to 1868; its designated main office is in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, while the parent's corporate headquarters is in San Francisco. The parent is public, with roughly 197,000–205,000 employees in 2025–2026 and FY2025 total revenue of about $83.7 billion and total assets near $2.28 trillion; Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. held about 90% of company assets per the FY2023 10-K. CEO is Charles W. Scharf.
Wells Fargo operates four main reporting segments: Consumer Banking and Lending (deposits, cards, home, auto and small-business lending); Corporate and Investment Banking (capital markets, corporate banking, treasury management and payments, investment banking, commercial real estate); Wealth and Investment Management (brokerage, advisory, trust and fiduciary); and Commercial Banking (credit and treasury services for private and mid-sized companies). It is a real operating bank, not a patent licensor.
Patent-litigation posture: purely defensive. In the tracked data the entity appears in 1 case as defendant and 0 as plaintiff. That single matter, Wapp Tech Limited Partnership v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., was filed 2021-08-27 in the E.D. Tex. (Sherman Division) and terminated 2022-11-28. This fits the standard pattern of a large operating company absorbing assertion suits rather than initiating them.
Context: Wapp Tech is a non-practicing licensor asserting mobile-application development, emulation and network-simulation patents (e.g., U.S. 8,924,192; 9,298,864; 9,971,678). Wapp sued software maker Micro Focus plus HPE, Wells Fargo and Bank of America over use of accused tooling, including LoadRunner/Performance Center; an earlier Wells Fargo & Co. suit (4:18-cv-00501) and this 2021 case were both resolved by confidential settlement and dismissal with prejudice. The cases cluster in plaintiff-friendly E.D. Tex. and reflect software-development-tooling claims, not a dispute over Wells Fargo's core banking products.
Second bank suit against Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.; a claim construction opinion was entered on July 6, 2022, but later disposition was not confirmed in the retrieved records.