Digital Envoy, Inc.

I'll research this company before writing the profile.

Let me verify ownership, the recent Google patent case, and the Quova litigation.

Digital Envoy, Inc.

Company overview. Digital Envoy, Inc. is a privately held IP-intelligence and geolocation technology company founded in 1999 by Rob Friedman, Sanjay Parekh and Dennis Maicon and headquartered in Norcross, Georgia (Atlanta metro). It is not publicly traded. Landmark Communications, Inc. acquired the company in 2007, and since 2009 it has been part of Dominion Enterprises, a media and information services company. No employee count or revenue figure is publicly verified; available profiles describe it as a small private firm and do not give reliable headcount or revenue bands.

Products / services. Digital Envoy is an operating company, not a shell licensor. Its core product is NetAcuity, an IP-intelligence service that maps IP addresses to approximate geographic location and derives connection-speed and domain attributes. It operates through business units including Digital Element (geolocation/IP targeting for advertising, content localization, digital rights management and analytics) and Digital Resolve (IP authentication and fraud prevention). In August 2021 it acquired location-data provider X-Mode Social, rebranded Outlogic; in January 2024 the FTC issued an order barring X-Mode/Outlogic from selling or sharing sensitive location data.

Patent-litigation posture. The tracked record is balanced: one case as plaintiff and one as defendant, which is consistent with an operating company rather than a non-practicing entity. Digital Envoy's plaintiff-side case is a contract and trade-secret dispute, not a patent assertion. Neither matter is a mass-filing campaign, and neither sits in a notoriously plaintiff-friendly venue such as the Eastern District of Texas; both resolved in the Northern District of California.

Notable cases. Digital Envoy, Inc. v. Google, Inc. (N.D. Cal., San Jose, No. 5:04-cv-01497) was filed in Georgia in March 2004 and transferred to California. Digital Envoy alleged Google exceeded a November 2000 license by using its IP geolocation data in AdSense, pleading trade-secret misappropriation, unfair competition, unjust enrichment and breach of contract; the court limited damages and entered summary judgment for Google in January 2006. In Quova, Inc. v. Digital Envoy, Inc. (N.D. Cal., No. 4:04-cv-02674), rival geolocation vendor Quova asserted patents against Digital Envoy; Digital Envoy counterclaimed, and the case was dismissed in January 2005 following a settlement. Docket metadata places this case in the Oakland Division, though the Unified Patents portal lists it under the Eastern District of California — a discrepancy worth flagging.