Commworks Solutions Inc

CommWorks Solutions, LLC (captioned as "Commworks Solutions Inc" in the N.D. Ala. docket; commonly shortened to CommWorks) is a privately held patent-holding entity, not an operating business. Its 2025 Eastern District of Texas filings identify its corporate parent as Brainbox Innovations, LLC; Unified Patents and RPX describe it as an NPE and subsidiary of IP Investments Group LLC (d/b/a IPinvestments Group), a Georgia-based patent monetization firm. No employee count, revenue, or market-cap figures are published for the entity.

The company has no products, services, or operations. Its assets are patent portfolios acquired from Intellectual Ventures LLC; in a 2021 declaratory judgment action, Altice USA alleged IV retained a security interest and a backend share of licensing revenue from those portfolios. Asserted patents cluster around Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) QoS, Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS), IEEE 802.11-2007+ networking, broadband access/PON routing, and, in a second campaign, cloud PBX and fax-to-email systems.

Litigation posture: pure plaintiff-side asserter. Our database shows 1 tracked case, 1 as plaintiff and 0 as defendant — consistent with an NPE that monetizes acquired patents rather than one defending products. Public dockets show a much broader campaign, with complaints filed in plaintiff-friendly venues including the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas, D. Del., C.D. Cal., and N.D. Ga.

Notable tracked case: CommWorks Solutions Inc v. Adtran Inc (5:23-cv-01327, N.D. Ala., filed Oct. 3, 2023) asserted six patents — including US 7,027,465, US RE44,904, US 7,177,285, US 7,911,979, US 6,891,807, and US 7,463,596 — against Adtran gateways and access points; Adtran moved to dismiss, and the case ended in voluntary dismissal without prejudice. Related public campaign matters include suits against Comcast, Charter, Extreme Networks, CommScope/ARRIS, Hon Hai (Belkin/Linksys), Open Text, Sangoma, NXP, EarthLink, and STMicroelectronics (dismissed with prejudice, 2025). Unified Patents successfully challenged several asserted patents, including US 8,923,846 (PTAB final written decision, Feb. 2023). The entity is unrelated to the former 3Com subsidiary CommWorks Corporation sold to UTStarcom in 2003.