Broadway National Bank

Broadway National Bank (doing business as Broadway Bank) is a privately held community bank headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. It was founded in February 1941 by Col. Charles E. Cheever Sr. and Elizabeth "Betty" Cheever and remains family-controlled, with the Cheever family holding roughly 90%. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Broadway Bancshares of Delaware, Inc., itself owned by Broadway Bancshares, Inc. It is not publicly traded. Reported scale as of 2025–2026 is approximately $5.6–5.9 billion in total assets, $3.7–3.8 billion under wealth management, and roughly 595 employees across about 35 locations.

Operations. Broadway Bank is an operating commercial bank, not a patent-holding entity. Service lines include commercial and residential lending, personal banking, private banking, wealth management, mortgage lending, and a Family Business Resource Center aimed at family-owned businesses. It operates across San Antonio, Austin, Dallas, Houston, and the Texas Hill Country. No public source indicates any patent portfolio of its own.

Litigation posture. The single tracked case shows Broadway National Bank as plaintiff (1) and never as defendant (0). That pattern reflects a defensive declaratory-judgment filing by an operating company against a patent assertion entity, rather than NPE-style assertion activity.

Notable case. In Broadway National Bank v. Plano Encryption Technologies, LLC (filed Nov. 20, 2015, W.D. Tex., No. 1:15-cv-01056), Broadway sought a declaration that it did not infringe three Plano Encryption patents (U.S. 5,974,399; 5,974,550; 6,587,858) covering secure data transmission, authentication, and repository access. The suit responded to a cease-and-desist letter accusing Broadway's mobile and online banking features of infringement. The court granted Plano Encryption's motion to dismiss for improper venue and transferred the case to the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division (No. 2:16-cv-00291). Plano Encryption Technologies is characterized as a non-practicing entity in the Stanford NPE litigation database; it sent similar letters to numerous banks and later asserted the patents against retailers and technology companies.