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1 case as plaintiff.
NantWorks, LLC is a private, multi-faceted holding company founded by physician and entrepreneur Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong. Headquartered in Culver City, California, the company was founded in 2007. It serves as the parent or umbrella organization for a diverse ecosystem of public and private companies. While specific revenue figures are not publicly disclosed, various business data providers estimate its direct employee count to be between 50 and 100 people.
NantWorks is an operating company that oversees a portfolio of subsidiaries focused on converging technologies across health, life sciences, and communications. Its "family of companies" includes entities such as NantHealth (a publicly traded healthcare IT company focused on genomics and clinical intelligence), ImmunityBio (a publicly traded immunotherapy company), and NantPharma (pharmaceutical development). The company’s stated mission is to use an integrated approach, combining semiconductor technology, supercomputing, and artificial intelligence to accelerate scientific discovery and improve healthcare.
The company's patent litigation posture, based on available data, is that of an operating company asserting its own intellectual property. It has been tracked in one case as a plaintiff and none as a defendant. This suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, a common venue for technology disputes, rather than a jurisdiction known for favoring patent plaintiffs.
The single tracked case is NantWorks, LLC et al. v. Niantic, Inc., filed in 2020. In the lawsuit, NantWorks alleged that Niantic's popular augmented reality (AR) games, including Pokémon Go, infringed on several of its patents related to AR technology, such as using a device's location to present virtual objects. The case did not proceed to trial; in 2023 and 2024, the court granted summary judgment motions in favor of defendant Niantic, invalidating claims from the asserted patents as being directed to abstract ideas and therefore not patent-eligible.
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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.