Plaintiff
10 cases as plaintiff.
Monument Peak Ventures, LLC ("MPV") is a Texas limited liability company formed in December 2016. Its registered place of business has been listed at 1400 Preston Rd., Suite 475, Plano, Texas, and later 200 Crescent Court, Suite 1550, Dallas, Texas. It is a patent-holding and licensing vehicle affiliated with Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC (Dominion Harbor Group), the patent-monetization firm founded by former IPNav CEO David Pridham. Certificates of interested parties identify its parent as Monument Patent Holdings, LLC. It is privately held and has no public ticker. No verified employee count or revenue figures are available; public sources describe it as a shell holding entity rather than an operating business.
MPV has no products, services, or operations. It is a non-practicing entity that acquires patent portfolios and licenses or litigates them. Its principal asset is a large portfolio of former Eastman Kodak digital-imaging patents obtained from Intellectual Ventures LLC in February 2017, covering topics such as digital camera capture, image processing and color editing, object detection, image organization, and camera power/control features. Patent-data aggregators list roughly 1,100-plus US assets associated with the entity. Dominion Harbor's own portfolio page describes MPV as holding Kodak's digital-imaging patents.
Litigation posture. MPV is a one-directional patent assertion entity. In the tracked data it appears as plaintiff in 9 cases and as defendant in 4. Those four defensive appearances are not evidence of operating activity: they consist of IPR petitions filed against MPV patents (Toshiba America Electronic Components, General Electric) and declaratory-judgment actions brought by Xerox in the Western District of New York and the Southern District of New York. The plaintiff-side filings cluster in the Eastern District of Texas (Marshall Division), a historically plaintiff-friendly venue, along with California and Delaware.
Notable matters. MPV's assertion campaign began in March 2018 with suits against GoPro (D. Del., over camera touch/voice-control and imaging patents) and DJI, and expanded to GE Healthcare (S.D. Cal., 2018), Toshiba (C.D. Cal., 2019), Xerox (E.D. Tex., 2021), Kyocera (E.D. Tex., 2023), and TCL Electronics (E.D. Tex., 2024). Xerox's 2020 DJ complaint describes MPV as one of many Dominion Harbor assertion entities and states the asserted Kodak camera patents were being read onto office printers. Unified Patents has run prior-art (PATROLL) contests against several MPV-owned patents, characterizing it as an NPE and Dominion Harbor entity. The merits of individual cases are not assessed here.
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Monument Peak Ventures, LLC sued TCL Electronics Holdings Ltd., et al. in E.D. Tex., accusing TCL smartphones of infringing U.S. 7,092,573 through beauty mode, AI scene detection, and portrait/depth effects. No final outcome was confirmed.
Monument Peak Ventures, LLC sued Kyocera Corporation in E.D. Tex., asserting five patents including U.S. 7,092,573. The case was closed on December 14, 2023, by dismissal with prejudice.
Monument Peak Ventures sued Kyocera for infringement in E.D. Tex., asserting US 7,006,890 and four other patents. The case was dismissed with prejudice on December 14, 2023, with no merits adjudication recorded.
Monument Peak Ventures sued Xerox in the Eastern District of Texas asserting six patents, including 7684090. Xerox moved to dismiss for improper venue or transfer; the case was settled and dismissed with prejudice.
Federal Circuit appeal from C.D. Cal. No. 8:19-cv-02181, appealing the August 12, 2020 dismissal order and September 11, 2020 final judgment. The appeal was resolved on December 13, 2021; the narrative does not state the disposition.
Monument Peak Ventures asserted several patents, including 7684090, against Toshiba entities. The court granted Toshiba's motion to dismiss on § 101 patentable-subject-matter grounds, and MPV appealed.
Monument Peak Ventures, LLC sued GE Healthcare, Inc. and General Electric Co. in S.D. Cal. involving U.S. 7,092,573. The case was stayed pending IPR institution decisions and then dismissed with prejudice by joint motion on October 29, 2019.
MPV sued GoPro for willful patent infringement. The case asserted multiple MPV patents; the narrative could not independently confirm that US 5,923,908 was among them, though the docket is linked to the '908 family. It was terminated on Aug. 22, 2018.
Monument Peak Ventures, LLC asserted four imaging patents, including U.S. 7,092,573, against Blu Products, Inc. in E.D. Tex. The case was dismissed with prejudice by joint motion.
The narrative lists 2:22-cv-00360 in E.D. Tex. involving Monument Peak Ventures, LLC and U.S. 7,092,573, but states that the defendant and outcome could not be independently confirmed. It should be treated as unverified.