Bluestone Ventures, Inc. ("Bluestone") is a privately held company based at 1984 Isaac Newton Square West, Suite 203, Reston, Virginia — in the Washington, D.C. suburbs. It has no public ticker and no disclosed parent. Public sources do not verify its founding year, employee count, or revenue; no such figures are reported in the records reviewed.
Products / services. Bluestone has no operating business. It describes itself, and is characterized by third parties, as a patent licensing and enforcement company. RPX notes the company describes itself as a "patent licensing and enforcement company," and Unified Patents classifies it as an NPE (patent assertion entity). Its asserted portfolio covers mobile-device location tracking, GPS-based route computation and map display, and vehicle-dispatch applications — for example, U.S. Patent 9,921,077, directed to sending location updates from mobile devices for use in vehicle dispatch.
Litigation posture. The structured data shows two tracked cases, both as plaintiff and none as defendant — the classic NPE profile. Both were filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, a plaintiff-favorable venue, in the Waco and Midland/Odessa Divisions. There is no record of Bluestone defending a suit, and it does not appear to make or sell products that would expose it to counterclaims.
Notable cases. Bluestone Ventures Inc v. Uber Technologies Inc (6:21-cv-00685) was filed in the Western District of Texas in June 2021, assigned to Judge Alan Albright, and terminated in September 2021; Unified Patents opened a PATROLL prior-art contest on the '077 patent during that case. Bluestone Ventures, Inc. v. Google LLC (7:25-cv-00569) was filed December 12, 2025 in the Midland/Odessa Division before Judge David Counts, accusing Google Maps and Pixel devices of infringing patents concerning route computation from GPS updates, position prediction between updates, and transfer of route data to a second device. The merits of these suits are not assessed here.