Plaintiff
3 cases as plaintiff.
RideApp, Inc. is a Delaware corporation with a listed place of business at 227 Sandy Springs Place, Suite D-273, Sandy Springs, Georgia — a mailing-suite address also used for founder Stephen Dickerson's residence. It was formed by Dickerson, a retired Georgia Tech mechanical engineering professor (Sc.D., MIT), and registered in Georgia on May 16, 2018; Georgia records show it administratively dissolved in August 2022. Ownership is private and founder-controlled (Dickerson is listed as CEO, CFO, and secretary). No public source reports revenue or headcount.
Operations: RideApp holds U.S. Patent No. 6,697,730 ("Communications and Computing Based Urban Transit System"), issued February 24, 2004, covering an automated transit system combining wireless communications, GPS location, on-demand vehicle allocation, and unified automatic billing. The patent was originally assigned to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation, reassigned back to Dickerson in early 2018, and then assigned to RideApp. Reporting in 2020 stated RideApp "has no product yet"; it is best characterized as a patent-holding/assertion vehicle rather than an operating transportation business. Unified Patents labeled it an NPE; Stanford's NPE litigation database tags its suits as involving a "failed startup" and a "product company" asserter category.
Litigation posture: RideApp appears only as a plaintiff (3 plaintiff cases, 0 defendant cases), asserting the single '730 patent against ride-hailing and bike-share operators. Venues are the Southern District of New York and the Northern District of Georgia, not the Eastern District of Texas.
Notable cases: RideApp, Inc. v. Lyft, Inc. (S.D.N.Y., filed July 23, 2018; later N.D. Cal. 3:18-cv-07152) targeted Lyft and its Motivate/Citi Bike subsidiary; RideApp, Inc. v. Juno USA, LP (S.D.N.Y., December 11, 2018); and RideApp, Inc. v. Uber Technologies, Inc. et al (N.D. Ga., May 31, 2019), which also named Social Bicycles LLC (Jump Bikes). Lyft and Unified Patents filed IPRs against the '730 patent in 2019, and the Federal Circuit affirmed in March 2021 that the asserted claims are invalid as indefinite, ending the litigation track.
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Patent infringement action filed by RideApp against Uber Technologies, Inc. and Social Bicycles, LLC (d/b/a Jump Bikes) in the Northern District of Georgia; listed as pending with the final disposition not confirmed.
Patent infringement action filed by RideApp against Juno USA, LP in the Southern District of New York; the case was terminated/closed, with no merits ruling confirmed in the narrative.
Patent infringement action filed by RideApp against Lyft in the Southern District of New York; terminated/dismissed or discontinued there, with litigation continuing in the Northern District of California.