DISH Network LLC

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DISH Network LLC is an operating subsidiary of DISH Network Corporation, the Englewood, Colorado pay-TV and wireless company founded by Charlie Ergen in 1980 as EchoStar. EchoStar Communications renamed itself DISH Network Corporation in January 2008 and spun off its technology arm as EchoStar Corporation; the company was publicly traded (Nasdaq: DISH) until December 31, 2023, when EchoStar Corporation re-acquired it in an all-stock transaction. Ergen retains voting control of the combined company. MarketScreener and EchoStar filings put headcount around 14,000 and DISH segment revenue near $10.7 billion in FY2024, with 8.5 million Pay-TV subscribers at year-end 2023.

Operations span three lines: (1) Pay-TV — the DISH TV direct-broadcast satellite service and SLING TV over-the-top streaming (Sling Orange/Blue, Sling International and Latino); (2) Retail Wireless — prepaid/postpaid service under Boost Mobile, Boost Infinite and Gen Mobile, largely as an MVNO on T-Mobile and AT&T; and (3) 5G network deployment — a cloud-native Open RAN network built on licensed spectrum, alongside satellite fleet operations and set-top/DVR receiver hardware.

Litigation posture: a pure operating-company defendant. In the tracked data DISH Network LLC appears in 0 plaintiff cases and 1 defendant case. Its patent litigation is defensive — it is repeatedly targeted by licensing entities (Customedia, Realtime Data, Dragon IP, among others) and typically counters via PTAB IPR/CBM petitions. It is not entirely one-directional: the 2023 10-K discloses a $75 million license of its Adaptive Bitrate Streaming patents to Peloton.

Notable case: Customedia Technologies, LLC v. DISH Network Corp. et al., filed February 10, 2016 in the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division (No. 2:16-cv-00129, Judge Gilstrap) — a plaintiff-friendly venue. Customedia, an NPE whose parent is Texas Customedia LLC, asserted patents (8,719,090; 9,053,494; 8,955,029; 7,840,437) on reserving set-top-box storage for targeted advertising, accusing DISH Hopper and other DVRs. The PTAB invalidated the claims under §101 in CBM/IPR proceedings; the Federal Circuit affirmed (951 F.3d 1359 (Fed. Cir. 2020)). The district case was stayed, dismissed, and DISH pursued an exceptional-case fee motion.