CONSUMERON LLC

CONSUMERON LLC is a privately held company based in Los Angeles, California. While its precise founding year is not publicly available, the company has been active since at least 2013. It is characterized as an "inventor-controlled" and "patent-holding entity" with no publicly disclosed employee count or revenue figures.

Initially, CONSUMERON LLC developed a grocery delivery and pick-up service, utilizing an app that incorporated augmented reality for personal shoppers in parts of Los Angeles. A 2013 press release also described its offering as a "virtual personal assistant" service with intellectual property available for licensing to larger corporations. More recently, CONSUMERON LLC is primarily described as a Non-Practicing Entity (NPE) that holds and asserts intellectual property rights related to "remote goods acquisition and delivery systems" and e-commerce delivery technology.

CONSUMERON LLC's patent litigation posture is largely that of a patent assertion entity. While the provided case data indicates a single appearance as a defendant before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), this specific case, Unified Patents v. CONSUMERON LLC, involves Unified Patents challenging the validity of a patent owned by CONSUMERON LLC through an inter partes review. Public records also show CONSUMERON LLC has acted as a plaintiff, initiating patent infringement lawsuits against operating companies in district courts.

A notable aspect of CONSUMERON LLC's litigation history includes its role as a plaintiff in disputes against Maplebear Inc., the parent company of Instacart. These lawsuits centered on patents, such as US9202191B2 and US10115067B2, related to systems and methods for remote acquisition and delivery of goods. In a significant development, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the invalidity of a central patent asserted by CONSUMERON LLC against Instacart in January 2026. The PTAB case tracked in our database further underscores CONSUMERON LLC's characterization as an NPE, as Unified Patents' mission is to deter such entities by challenging their patents.