Zoom Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZM) — commonly known simply as Zoom — is a publicly traded communications-technology company headquartered in San Jose, California. It was incorporated in Delaware in April 2011 as Saasbee, Inc., became Zoom Video Communications, Inc. in May 2012, and adopted its current legal name in November 2024. Founded by Eric S. Yuan, it is a standalone public company with no parent. Per its FY2026 Form 10-K (fiscal year ended Jan. 31, 2026), revenue was roughly $4.87B with approximately 7,400 employees; its market value has recently been in the ~$20B range.
Products / services. Zoom is an operating company, not a patent-assertion entity. It sells subscriptions to a unified communications and collaboration platform. The core "Zoom Workplace" suite includes Zoom Meetings, Zoom Phone (cloud PBX with native PSTN connectivity in 45+ countries), Zoom Team Chat, Zoom Docs, Zoom Whiteboard, and Zoom Rooms, along with AI Companion. "Zoom Business Services" covers customer-engagement products such as Zoom Contact Center, Zoom Revenue Accelerator, and Zoom Events. The company has also acquired tuck-in businesses (e.g., Workvivo in 2023).
Litigation posture. The tracked data show 2 cases, both as defendant and zero as plaintiff — the profile of an operating company being attacked rather than a litigant asserting its own portfolio. Both appearances are Ricoh Company, Ltd. v. Zoom Communications, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware (docket 1:25-cv-01095-JCG, complaint filed August 2025), so the cases are essentially the same dispute rather than a multi-front campaign. Delaware, not the Eastern District of Texas, is the venue.
Notable case context. Ricoh — a Japanese imaging and electronics company that offered early-2000s cloud collaboration/videoconferencing technology — asserts seven patents (including the '487, '059, '917, '464, '093, '278, and '548 patents) covering videoconferencing, whiteboard integration, display control, and transmission systems, targeting Zoom Meetings, Zoom Workplace, and related features. Zoom moved to dismiss on § 101 subject-matter eligibility grounds; the court denied that motion in May 2026, finding the claims abstract at Alice step one but adequately pleading an inventive concept at step two.