Defendant
1 case as defendant.
X-Rite Incorporated — commonly branded "X-Rite Pantone" — is a color-measurement and color-management technology company headquartered at 4400 44th St. SE, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Founded in December 1958 by seven engineers from Lear Siegler, it went public in 1986 (NASDAQ: XRIT), acquired Pantone LLC in 2007, and was bought by Danaher Corporation in 2012 for roughly $625 million. On September 30, 2023, Danaher spun off its Environmental & Applied Solutions segment as Veralto Corporation (NYSE: VLTO), and X-Rite now operates as one of Veralto's brands within its Product Quality & Innovation segment. X-Rite has publicly stated it employs more than 800 people across 11 countries; a 2009 SEC filing reported 913 full-time employees. It is not separately publicly traded.
Products / operations. X-Rite designs and sells color-measurement hardware and software: spectrophotometers, colorimeters, densitometers and multi-angle instruments used for color formulation and quality control in plastics, paints, inks, textiles, automotive coatings and print. Its software and services include ICC color profiling, quality-control and formulation packages, and appearance/visual-evaluation products. Pantone, its wholly owned subsidiary, supplies the Pantone Matching System and color-standard products and licensing. X-Rite acquired Colorware B.V. (MeasureColor) in November 2024. It is an operating company, not a patent-assertion entity.
Litigation posture. X-Rite appears once in the tracked data, solely as a defendant (0 plaintiff, 1 defendant), consistent with an operating company defending its products rather than asserting patents. The venue is its home district, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan — not a plaintiff-friendly forum such as the Eastern District of Texas.
Notable case. RAH Color Technologies LLC v. X-Rite Incorporated (W.D. Mich.). RAH Color Technologies is a Virginia LLC managed by Dr. Richard A. Holub, an inventor who owns patents generally directed to color management; the complaint asserted roughly ten RAH patents against X-Rite's spectrophotometers and color software. RAH has filed comparable suits against other color-industry defendants including Adobe, Xerox, Quad/Graphics, Heidelberg, EFI and Ricoh, a pattern characteristic of a non-practicing patent holder licensing an inventor-held portfolio. No merits determination is reflected in the tracked data.
RAH Color Technologies suit against X-Rite. The complaint listed US 7,791,761 among ten patents-in-suit, but the exact filing date and disposition were not confirmed, and the complaint was not independently matched to this docket in a single source.