J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM; commonly "JPMorgan Chase," "JPMorgan," or "Chase") is a publicly traded U.S. bank holding company headquartered at 270 Park Avenue, New York City. Its oldest predecessor, the Bank of the Manhattan Company, dates to 1799; the current entity was formed in 2000 by the merger of Chase Manhattan Corporation and J.P. Morgan & Co. (Wikipedia). It is the largest U.S. bank by assets — roughly $4 trillion — with about 317,000–320,000 employees and FY2024 revenue of approximately $178 billion per company filings (Mergr; Wikipedia; Perplexity finance summary of JPM data).

Operations. JPMorgan Chase is an operating financial-services company, not a patent-assertion entity. It reports through three segments: Consumer & Community Banking (Chase retail branches, credit cards, auto and mortgage lending, payments), Commercial & Investment Bank (advisory, debt/equity underwriting, sales and trading, prime brokerage, custody and securities services, commercial lending), and Asset & Wealth Management (institutional and private-client investment management). It also operates merchant-acquiring and payment-processing businesses, including Paymentech.

Patent-litigation posture. The tracked data show one appearance, as plaintiff at the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board; zero defendant-side tracked cases. That single appearance reflects defensive post-grant work rather than assertion: JPMorgan Chase petitioned for covered business method review against patents owned by Intellectual Ventures II LLC. Taken with the company's actual products and services, JPMorgan Chase is best characterized as an operating company that uses PTAB proceedings to challenge patents asserted against it, not an NPE or two-way litigant.

Notable case context. The tracked matter, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. v. Intellectual Ventures II LLC (PTAB, filed 2014-07-18), relates to CBM2014-00160 and the companion CBM2014-00157 concerning U.S. Patent 6,314,409, a data-access/distribution patent. Both arose from Intellectual Ventures II LLC v. JPMorgan Chase & Co., No. 1:13-cv-03777 (S.D.N.Y.), in which IV asserted patents covering intrusion detection, packet filtering, public-key certificates, encrypted data access, and a crypto-engine; that litigation was venued in the Southern District of New York, not the Eastern District of Texas. The PTAB denied institution in CBM2014-00160 and instituted review in CBM2014-00157.