Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Company overview. Ziff Davis, Inc. is a publicly traded digital media and internet company headquartered at 360 Park Avenue South, New York, NY, trading on Nasdaq under ticker ZD. The company was formerly known as j2 Global, Inc. and changed its name to Ziff Davis in October 2021; the current holding company was incorporated in 2014, with corporate roots dating to 1995. Public sources report roughly 3,800–4,200 employees, trailing-twelve-month revenue of about $1.39–1.45 billion, and a market cap near $1.7–1.9 billion.
Products / services / operations. Ziff Davis is an operating company organized into two segments: Digital Media and Cybersecurity & Martech. Its Digital Media segment owns consumer web properties and apps including IGN, Mashable, PCMag, CNET, RetailMeNot, Offers.com, Humble Bundle, Speedtest (Ookla), Downdetector, Everyday Health, BabyCenter, What to Expect, and MedPage Today. The Cybersecurity and Martech segment sells cloud-based subscription services, including VPN, endpoint and email security, backup and file-sharing (IPVanish, VIPRE, Livedrive, SugarSync) and email marketing, SEO, and business-communications tools (Campaigner, iContact, Moz, eVoice, Line2).
Patent-litigation posture. Ziff Davis is a defendant-only participant in the tracked cases (0 plaintiff, 1 defendant), consistent with an operating company defending against a patent-assertion suit rather than asserting patents itself. The single tracked matter, Peter Henrik Pedersen v. Ziff Davis, Inc. (6:22-cv-00597), was filed June 9, 2022, in the Western District of Texas (Waco Division, Judge Alan Albright), a venue known for patent-plaintiff-friendly practices.
Notable case and context. The suit was part of a campaign by individual inventor Peter Henrik Pedersen (believed associated with AiPi Solutions) asserting U.S. Patent 6,965,920, directed to profile-based electronic message management, against email-marketing and webmail providers including Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle, Salesforce, Zoho, and Intuit. Ziff Davis was sued in connection with its email-marketing products under its former J2 Global name. The PTAB found the patent unpatentable in IPR2023-00029 (May 2024), and the Federal Circuit affirmed that decision in March 2026.
Infringement action listed as Pedersen v. Ziff Davis, Inc. concerning US Patent 6,965,920; current status was not confirmed in the narrative.