Plaintiff

AG 18, LLC d/b/a Arrow Gaming

1 case as plaintiff.

Cases
1
Active
0
1 closed
Filed
2021
Top venue
D. New Jersey
1 case

Company profile

Company overview. AG 18, LLC, doing business as Arrow Gaming, is a privately held Delaware limited liability company. Public records do not disclose its headquarters, founding date, employee count, or revenue, and no operating website or product marketing could be verified. Its earliest identified activity is the June 2008 priority filing of U.S. Patent No. 9,613,498, which is assigned to AG 18, LLC, suggesting the entity dates to roughly that period.

Products / services / operations. AG 18 does not appear to sell products or operate a business. It is best characterized as a non-practicing patent holder: its only documented activity is asserting a small portfolio of gaming-technology patents. In the DraftKings suit it asserted five patents — U.S. Patent Nos. 9,613,498 ("Systems and Methods for Peer-to-Peer Gaming") and 9,978,205, 10,497,220, 10,614,657, and 11,024,131 ("Location Based Restrictions on Networked Gaming") — against DraftKings' daily fantasy sports (DFS) and casino product offerings.

Patent-litigation posture. AG 18 is a plaintiff-only litigant: its one tracked case is a suit it filed, with zero appearances as a defendant. That pattern, combined with the absence of any verifiable commercial operations, is consistent with an NPE/patent-assertion-entity posture. The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (not a traditionally plaintiff-friendly venue like EDTX).

Notable case. The sole tracked matter is AG 18, LLC d/b/a Arrow Gaming v. DraftKings Inc. et al. (2:21-cv-15737, D.N.J.), filed August 19, 2021. Per DraftKings' SEC filings, DraftKings answered with invalidity counterclaims, filed inter partes review petitions against all five patents (institution granted on each), and the district court administratively terminated the case in April 2023 pending PTAB final decisions. The suit was one of several patent actions against DraftKings by gaming-technology patent holders, but no additional AG 18 litigation has been identified, and its ultimate disposition could not be confirmed from available public sources.

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AG 18, LLC d/b/a Arrow Gaming v. DraftKings Inc. et al.

stayed/administratively terminated
Docket:
1:21-cv-15737; 2:21-cv-15737
Filed:
2021-08-19
Patents:9613498

AG 18 sued DraftKings, and later Crown Gaming, alleging infringement of four AG 18 patents, including the '498 patent, based on DraftKings' DFS and Casino product offerings. DraftKings answered and asserted invalidity counterclaims. After the PTAB instituted IPRs, the district court administratively terminated/stayed the case pending IPR appeal; no merits decision has been reached.