Bonutti Skeletal Innovations LLC

Bonutti Skeletal Innovations LLC ("Bonutti Skeletal") is a Texas-based patent-holding entity with addresses in Plano/Frisco, TX. It was organized in 2012 to hold orthopedic patents assigned from surgeon Dr. Peter M. Bonutti and his holding companies (MarcTec LLC and Bonutti Research, Inc.). It is not independent: per its own PTAB mandatory notices and district-court corporate disclosure statements, it is a subsidiary of Advanced Skeletal Innovations LLC, which is wholly owned by Acacia Research Group LLC, itself wholly owned by publicly traded Acacia Research Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTG), a patent licensing and assertion company. No separate employee count or revenue is disclosed for the LLC, and it has no disclosed operations.

Products / services: none. Bonutti Skeletal does not manufacture or sell anything; in Bonutti Skeletal Innovations v. Zimmer (D. Del.) the court noted Bonutti conceded it "does not manufacture products or engage in head-to-head competition." Its assets are an acquired patent portfolio in orthopedic and surgical technology — knee arthroplasty methods and instrumentation, minimally invasive joint replacement, bone wedge implants, spinal spacers, and suture anchors, largely continuation families claiming 1990s priority and naming Dr. Bonutti as inventor.

Litigation posture: a pure plaintiff-side non-practicing entity. In the tracked data it appears once, as plaintiff, and never as defendant — the classic profile of a licensing/assertion vehicle monetizing an acquired portfolio. Assertions have been brought against orthopedic device manufacturers in plaintiff-favorable venues including D. Del. and the Eastern District of Texas.

Notable case: Bonutti Skeletal Innovations LLC v. ConforMIS, Inc., No. 1:12-cv-01109 (D. Del.), filed Sept. 10, 2012, asserting knee-arthroplasty patents (e.g., U.S. 7,806,896) against ConforMIS knee-resurfacing products. The case was stayed in April 2014 pending inter partes reviews, and dismissed by joint stipulation in February 2015. ConforMIS separately sued Acacia Research, Advanced Skeletal and Bonutti Skeletal in D. Mass. (1:13-cv-10377) with contract and trade-secret claims. Related Bonutti Skeletal suits named Zimmer, Wright Medical, Smith & Nephew, DePuy, Globus Medical, Arthrex and Biomet.