Plaintiff
1 case as plaintiff.
Nant Holdings IP, LLC is a private intellectual property holding company associated with NantWorks, LLC, a diverse conglomerate of technology companies founded in 2011 by physician and entrepreneur Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong. Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, NantWorks and its various subsidiaries operate in sectors including healthcare, life sciences, energy, and communications. Nant Holdings IP, LLC serves as the legal entity that holds patents and other intellectual property for the broader NantWorks ecosystem.
As an intellectual property holding company, Nant Holdings IP, LLC does not have its own products or services. It is a non-practicing entity (NPE) that manages and asserts the patent portfolio generated by or acquired for the NantWorks family of companies. This portfolio is diverse, with patents covering technologies ranging from medical diagnostics and healthcare IT to augmented reality (AR), network management, and virtual production. Its parent, NantWorks, develops and commercializes technology in fields like machine vision, genomics, and personalized medicine.
The company's patent litigation posture is that of a patent-assertion entity acting on behalf of its parent. The provided data shows it has appeared as a plaintiff in one tracked case and has not been a defendant. This litigation activity involves asserting its patent portfolio against technology operating companies. Its single tracked case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, a major venue for technology disputes.
The notable tracked case is NantWorks, LLC et al. v. Niantic, Inc., filed in 2020. In this suit, NantWorks and Nant Holdings IP, LLC alleged that Niantic's popular augmented reality games, including Pokémon Go, infringed on patents related to the placement and rendering of virtual objects in a real-world environment. The case concluded with the district court granting summary judgment in favor of defendant Niantic, invalidating the asserted patent claims; the judgment was later affirmed on appeal in April 2026.
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Plaintiffs alleged that Niantic's augmented reality games infringed on three patents. On July 9, 2024, the court granted Niantic's motion for summary judgment, finding claims of the '051 patent invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101 and entering judgment for the defendant.