Mimzi, LLC

Mimzi, LLC is a private patent-holding company based in Alabama and founded in April 2017. The entity is described as being controlled by its founder, inventor James L. Geer. As a private entity with no apparent commercial operations, details on its employee count and revenue are not publicly available. Industry sources characterize Mimzi as a non-practicing entity (NPE) or patent assertion entity.

The company does not manufacture products or offer services. Its activities are focused on monetizing a patent portfolio originating from its founder. The patents asserted in its litigation campaigns relate to technologies such as connected vehicle data retrieval, voice interaction, audio recording, and speech recognition systems. For example, asserted patents have covered methods for a mobile device user to make a spoken request for location-based information and systems for recording and storing searchable audio and metadata.

Mimzi's patent-litigation posture is that of a patent enforcer. As indicated by the authoritative case data, the company has acted solely as a plaintiff in three tracked cases and has not been named as a defendant. All of these recent suits were filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, a jurisdiction often favored by patent plaintiffs. An earlier litigation campaign that began in 2018 saw the company file suits in the District of Delaware.

The company's most recent litigation targets major corporations in the automotive and electronics sectors, including Nissan, Honda, and Samsung Electronics. The case against Honda, concerning connected vehicle technology, was voluntarily dismissed by Mimzi in February 2026. Its suit against Samsung targets the Bixby virtual assistant and SmartThings Find technology in Galaxy devices. This recent activity follows a prior campaign (2018-2019) against companies like TripAdvisor and Foursquare, which ended after an asserted patent was invalidated by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Mimzi has since initiated new lawsuits asserting different patents from the same family. In October 2025, the patent-quality organization Unified Patents challenged another Mimzi patent through an ex parte reexamination proceeding.