Plaintiff

AliphCom d/b/a Jawbone

1 case as plaintiff.

Cases
1
Active
0
1 closed
Filed
2015
Top venue
ITC
1 case

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Company overview. AliphCom, Inc., which did business as Aliph and Jawbone, was a San Francisco–based consumer-electronics company founded in 1999 by Alexander Asseily and Hosain Rahman. It was a private, venture-backed company, not publicly traded. Jawbone raised roughly $930 million from investors including Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, and the Kuwait Investment Authority, and was valued at about $3.2 billion in 2014; it reported roughly 450 employees near its peak. The company entered an assignment for the benefit of creditors and was liquidated in July 2017, one of the largest venture-backed failures. Its CEO moved on to the separate Jawbone Health Hub venture, and Aliph Brands later licensed the Jawbone name.

Products / operations. Jawbone developed noise-suppression and voice technology originally supported by U.S. Navy and DARPA research. Its product lines included Bluetooth noise-canceling headsets (the Jawbone headset and later Prime, Icon, and Era models), the Jambox line of portable wireless speakers, and the UP series of fitness-tracking wristbands. It competed with Fitbit, Xiaomi, Apple, and Samsung before exiting the fitness-tracker business.

Patent-litigation posture. Jawbone appears in the tracked database solely as a plaintiff (1 case, 0 as defendant) — the profile of an operating company enforcing its own patents rather than an NPE. It also faced counter-assertions from Fitbit in parallel ITC and district-court proceedings, making it an active two-way litigant during 2015–2017, though only its complainant-side case is tracked here.

Notable cases. The tracked matter, AliphCom d/b/a Jawbone et al. v. Fitbit, Inc. et al. (filed July 7, 2015), became ITC Investigation No. 337-TA-963, in which Jawbone and BodyMedia alleged infringement of six activity-tracking patents and trade-secret misappropriation against Fitbit and Flextronics. Fitbit filed a reciprocal Section 337 complaint (Inv. 337-TA-973). The disputes centered on wearable activity-tracking hardware and software; the Fitbit litigation was reportedly among Jawbone's most valuable remaining assets at liquidation.

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AliphCom d/b/a Jawbone et al. v. Fitbit, Inc. et al.

terminated / no violation
Docket:
337-TA-963
Filed:
2015-07-07
Terminated:
2016-10-20

Section 337 investigation concerning activity tracking devices. The '707 patent claims 19, 23, and 24 were asserted along with U.S. Patents 8,398,546, 8,446,275, 8,529,811, 8,793,522, and 8,961,413. The Commission terminated the investigation on October 20, 2016, finding no violation and issuing no exclusion order.