Honeyman Cipher Solutions LLC

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Honeyman Cipher Solutions LLC is a Delaware-formed entity (organized October 2018) with a stated principal place of business at 675 Town Square Blvd., Suite 200, Garland, Texas. In its Delaware litigation disclosures it reported no parent corporation and that no publicly held company owns 10% or more of its stock. No employee count, revenue, or product operations are disclosed in any public source reviewed; it is not a registered public company.

The company is identified as a non-practicing entity by Unified Patents, the Stanford NPE Litigation Database, and RPX. It has no products or services. Its assertion campaign rests on a single patent: U.S. Patent No. 5,991,399, "Method for securely distributing a conditional use private key to a trusted entity on a remote system," issued November 23, 1999 (priority December 18, 1997), directed to digital-content/key-distribution security. The patent originated with Intel, moved to Convera (2001) and then H2 Partners LLC (2011), was acquired by Plano Encryption Technologies, LLC (PET) in 2015, and was assigned to Honeyman Cipher in March 2019. Honeyman Cipher is described in the sources as a Bradley D. Liddle–associated entity, linked to PET's earlier campaign.

The tracked data reflects that posture: 10 cases as plaintiff and 1 as defendant. The sole defendant-side matter is the Patent Trial and Appeal Board proceeding Unified Patents, LLC v. Honeyman Cipher Solutions, LLC. Plaintiff suits were filed against Groupon, LogMeIn, Snap, Adidas America, ASICS Digital, Evernote, PayPal, Asana, Slack Technologies, and Costco Wholesale. Cases cluster in the Western District of Texas (Judge Alan Albright) and other venues including Delaware, Northern District of Illinois, Northern District of Texas, and Colorado.

Infringement allegations focus on defendants' use of Apple's iTunes Connect and Google's Android Developer Console to register and distribute iOS and Android apps. External context: PET's predecessor campaign (2015–2016) targeted banks and then app developers, largely in the Eastern District of Texas, and drew declaratory-judgment actions and dismissals for improper venue after TC Heartland. Unified filed IPR2020-00213 against the '399 patent in December 2019; the parties settled and the proceeding was terminated in March 2020. An earlier IPR (IPR2017-01721) against the same patent was filed by State Farm.