Defendant
3 cases as defendant.
I'll verify the company's profile and the litigation context.
Adidas America, Inc. is the U.S. (North America) operating subsidiary of adidas AG, headquartered at "adidas Village," 5055 N. Greeley Avenue, Portland, Oregon. It is wholly owned by adidas North America, Inc., which is itself wholly owned by adidas AG (Herzogenaurach, Germany; founded 1949; publicly listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under ticker ADS / ISIN DE000A1EWWW0). Adidas AG reported 2024 net sales of €23.68 billion and 62,035 employees; its North America segment generated €5.13 billion. No separate employee or revenue figures for the Adidas America entity itself are published.
Operations. adidas designs, markets and distributes athletic footwear, apparel and accessories under the adidas Performance (football, running, training, basketball) and adidas Originals lifestyle lines, plus Sportswear. Distribution runs through wholesale, own-retail stores, e-commerce and brand apps; the company also licenses its trademarks. Adidas AG sold the Reebok business in 2022 and wound down the Yeezy line in 2024. Adidas America is therefore a large, fully operating consumer-goods business, not a shell or licensing vehicle.
Patent-litigation posture. Purely defensive. In the tracked data it appears once, as a defendant (0 plaintiff cases, 1 defendant case) — the classic profile of an operating company targeted by a non-practicing entity. The single suit, Honeyman Cipher Solutions LLC v. Adidas America, Inc., was filed in the Western District of Texas (W.D. Tex., No. 1:20-cv-00401, April 2020), a venue that drew heavy NPE filing volume at the time.
Case context. Honeyman Cipher is a Delaware entity (formed October 2018, Garland, Texas address) characterized by Unified Patents, RPX and Stanford's NPE database as a patent assertion entity. It acquired U.S. Patent 5,991,399 — "Method for securely distributing a conditional use private key to a trusted entity on a remote system" (expired/expiring DRM-era art) — from Plano Encryption Technologies in March 2019. Honeyman's April 2020 campaign targeted app operators, including adidas, ASICS Digital, Evernote and PayPal, alleging infringement via use of Apple iTunes Connect and Google Android Developer Console for app distribution; the adidas case was voluntarily dismissed by the plaintiff in late June 2020, roughly 76 days after filing. Unified Patents had filed an IPR against the '399 patent (IPR2020-00213) that terminated by settlement in March 2020.
Nike sued adidas entities in the District of Oregon, asserting nine Nike Flyknit patents. The narrative could not confirm that U.S. Patent No. 9,907,350 was among the asserted patents; the case was settled and dismissed without prejudice in August 2022.
Nike asserted nine Flyknit patents, including the '932 patent, against adidas's Primeknit footwear. The court stayed the case pending the ITC investigation; after settlement, the case was dismissed without prejudice in August 2022.
Nike's patent infringement suit against adidas entities in the District of Oregon alleging adidas's Primeknit footwear infringed Nike's knit-upper (Flyknit) patents. The case was closed by settlement/dismissal in August 2022. The narrative could not confirm that the '598 patent was specifically named in the Oregon complaint, though the parallel ITC action asserted it.