Advanced Broadband LLC

Advanced Broadband LLC is a Texas-based entity that engages in patent assertion. Public records do not indicate it has any employees, headquarters, or business operations beyond litigation. An earlier, unrelated operating company with the same name was a division of homebuilder Toll Brothers that provided broadband services to residential communities before being acquired by Comcast. There is no evidence linking that prior operating company to the current litigating entity.

Advanced Broadband LLC does not appear to offer any products or services. Its activities are characteristic of a non-practicing entity (NPE), also known as a patent assertion entity, which acquires patents to generate revenue through licensing and litigation. The entity's recent lawsuit asserts at least one patent, U.S. Patent No. 9,320,041, which relates to wireless communications technology.

The company's patent litigation posture is that of an aggressor. It has been tracked in one case, acting as the plaintiff, and has not been named as a defendant. This plaintiff-only activity is the defining feature of an NPE. The company filed its single lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, a venue historically viewed as favorable to patent plaintiffs.

The only tracked litigation involving this entity is Advanced Broadband LLC v. T-Mobile USA Inc., filed on April 20, 2026. In the suit, Advanced Broadband alleges that the wireless carrier infringes upon its patent. The case has been assigned to Judge Rodney Gilstrap, a prominent judge for patent cases in that district.