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Customedia Technologies, LLC is a limited liability company whose sole parent is Texas Customedia LLC (per Federal Circuit Rule 47.3 corporate disclosure statements). Public sources do not state a headquarters address, incorporation date, employee count, or revenue; it has no known public ticker and no reported operating business. Its patents name a single inventor, William Henry Lewis, who assigned all rights to the company.
Products / services. Customedia is a non-practicing entity with no products or services. Sources describe it as an NPE controlled by Lewis. Its asserted portfolio covers U.S. Patent Nos. 8,719,090; 9,053,494; 7,840,437; and 8,955,029, all titled "System for Data Management and On-Demand Rental and Purchase of Digital Data Products," with priority dating to 1997–1999. The claims describe a data-delivery system in which a set-top box reserves a storage section for specifically identified advertising data delivered from a remote server. Lewis also transferred at least one unrelated patent (U.S. 6,213,391, biometric authentication) to Vindolor LLC, another Lewis-controlled NPE, per Shook, Hardy & Bacon.
Litigation posture. The case data show 3 plaintiff appearances and 1 defendant appearance — the classic NPE profile. All tracked matters involve the same dispute with DISH Network: Customedia sued as plaintiff, DISH petitioned the PTAB as petitioner (the "defendant" entry reflects the CBM proceeding), and Customedia appealed invalidations to the Federal Circuit and Supreme Court. The underlying suit, Customedia Technologies, LLC v. DISH Network Corp., No. 2:16-cv-00129, was filed February 10, 2016 in the Eastern District of Texas (Marshall Division) — a plaintiff-friendly venue — and was stayed on August 8, 2017.
Notable context. The PTAB invalidated the asserted claims in CBM2017-00019 (the '437 patent), CBM2017-00023 (the '090 patent), IPR2017-00454 ('090), and IPR2017-00724 ('494). The Federal Circuit affirmed in Customedia Techs., LLC v. Dish Network Corp., 951 F.3d 1359 (Fed. Cir. 2020), holding the claims ineligible under § 101 as directed to the abstract idea of delivering targeted advertising. Customedia's cert petition (No. 20-135) was denied October 13, 2020, and its rehearing petition was rejected November 17, 2020. The USPTO issued cancellation certificates for the challenged claims in June–July 2021.
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Customedia petitioned for a writ of certiorari seeking review of the '437 patent appeal. The Supreme Court denied certiorari on October 13, 2020, and later rejected a rehearing petition.
Customedia appealed the PTAB's CBM2017-00019 final written decision invalidating claims of U.S. Patent No. 7,840,437. The Federal Circuit summarily affirmed and later denied rehearing.
Federal Circuit appeal of the CBM final written decisions for US 8,719,090 and US 9,053,494. The court affirmed the PTAB's invalidity holdings on 2020-03-06; rehearing and rehearing en banc were denied on 2020-06-09.