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7 cases as plaintiff.
IPA Technologies Inc. is an intellectual property assertion entity and a subsidiary of WiLAN, a publicly traded patent licensing company. It specializes in asserting patents related to foundational research in intelligent personal assistant and distributed agent technologies. The company does not develop or offer products or services of its own.
The company's operations consist solely of patent assertion, leveraging an acquired portfolio. These patents, including U.S. Patent No. 7,069,560 B1, which covers a highly scalable software-based architecture for communication and cooperation among distributed electronic agents, were originally developed by SRI International and sold to IPA Technologies in 2016.
IPA Technologies Inc. maintains a patent-litigation posture as a plaintiff, actively asserting its acquired portfolio against major technology companies. Its litigation history shows one tracked case as a plaintiff and zero as a defendant. Notable lawsuits include actions against Microsoft, Amazon, and Google, commencing in 2018.
Among its most prominent cases, IPA Technologies Inc. v. Microsoft Corp. in the District of Delaware resulted in a $242 million jury verdict for IPA in May 2024, concerning U.S. Patent No. 7,069,560, before the parties reached a settlement. In IPA Technologies Inc. v. Google, LLC, the Federal Circuit affirmed an infringement finding against Google in January 2026 related to the same patent. Another case involving U.S. Patent No. 6,851,115 B1 saw the Federal Circuit affirm its invalidity in January 2026.
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The Federal Circuit affirmed an infringement finding against Google, LLC on January 14, 2026, establishing that Google's distributed software architecture infringed US Patent 7069560, specifically its architectural breadth covering modern AI and cloud implementations.
Appeal from the PTAB Google '128 IPRs. The Federal Circuit entered a Rule 36 judgment of affirmance on Mar. 11, 2022 (panel: Dyk, Schall, Taranto); nonprecedential.
IPA sued Microsoft in D. Del., originally asserting the Halverson patents including 6757718; a Second Amended Complaint added the Cheyer patents '115, '560, and '128, accusing Microsoft's Cortana. On January 18, 2019, the '718, '021, and '061 claims were dismissed under §101/Alice. The case continued on the surviving Cheyer patents and later involved summary-judgment/Daubert and Federal Circuit activity.
IPA Technologies Inc. sued Microsoft Corp. in the District of Delaware. The complaint was submitted as Exhibit 1006 in the '021 IPR, indicating '021 was among the asserted patents. The case was stayed 2020-01-10 pending IPRs and later resolved in Microsoft's favor at the PTAB and on appeal.
IPA Technologies Inc. sued ZTE (USA) Inc. in D. Del. accusing ZTE Android devices with Google Now of infringing US 6,523,061 and US 6,742,021. The case was closed.
IPA asserted the Halverson patents, including 6757718, against Amazon and Amazon Digital Services in D. Del. On January 18, 2019, the court dismissed the '718, '021, and '061 claims under §101/Alice, while denying dismissal as to the Cheyer patents. The case proceeded on the Cheyer patents and final judgment of non-infringement was entered for Amazon on October 28, 2021; the appeal did not include '718.
IPA Technologies Inc. sued Microsoft Corp. in D. Del. listing US 6,523,061 among asserted patents. The case was stayed with the Google case pending IPR in January 2020.