Intellectual Integrity, LLC

Intellectual Integrity, LLC is a privately held Texas limited liability company with a business address at 2591 Dallas Parkway, Suite 300, Frisco, Texas. Public records tie it to patent attorney Ronald W. Burns (USPTO Reg. No. 44,044), who is identified in PTAB filings as its operator and contact of record. No employee count, revenue, funding, or parent-company information is disclosed in available public sources; it is not publicly traded. Available coverage describes it as a company that "does not manufacture a single product."

Operations. It has no disclosed products or services. Rather than a conventional patent-owning licensor asserting its own portfolio, Intellectual Integrity functions as a non-practicing entity that files offensive post-grant challenges against patents owned by others. Its stated rationale, per contemporaneous reporting on its website, was that invalidating patent claims can render a patent "worthless in terms of enforcement and/or licensing revenues," with the implied aim of extracting a settlement payment from the patent owner to withdraw the challenge.

Litigation posture. The tracked data shows one case and is unambiguous about direction: Intel­lectual Integrity appears as plaintiff (petitioner) once and as defendant zero times, entirely before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. There is no district-court footprint in the tracked data, so no plaintiff-friendly venue clustering (e.g., Eastern District of Texas) is reflected. This is a pure assertion/challenge-side profile, not an operating company defending itself.

Notable case. Intellectual Integrity, LLC v. Apple Inc. (IPR2016-00500, filed January 22, 2016) petitioned for review of Apple's U.S. Patent No. 7,864,163, the "touch-to-zoom" patent asserted against Samsung in Apple v. Samsung, where a jury verdict initially exceeded $1 billion. Commentators framed the petition as an unusual use of IPR by an entity with no infringement exposure to Apple, and compared it to the hedge-fund-funded IPR campaigns of Kyle Bass. The final disposition of IPR2016-00500 could not be verified from the sources reviewed. Note that "Memory Integrity, LLC," a similarly Frisco-based NPE, is a separate entity and should not be conflated with this one.