Staton Techiya, LLC et al.

Staton Techiya, LLC is a privately held patent assertion entity (NPE) founded in 2017 and headquartered in Delray Beach, Florida. The company has raised $8.15 million in funding and is connected to Staton Capital, a private equity firm. Staton Techiya has stated it does not have a parent corporation. It identifies a single source of third-party litigation funding from PurpleVine IP, a company organized under the laws of the People's Republic of China.

Staton Techiya's operations consist of acquiring and asserting a patent portfolio rather than developing and selling products or services. Its stated goal is to "identify a need, develop a solution to the need, demonstrate the viability of the solution by proof of concepts or prototypes, then patent-protect the ideas and license or tech transfer the technology". The company holds over 250 patents primarily focused on audio processing, voice AI, smart device technologies, wearable solutions (such as earphones and phones), and headwear recording systems.

As a pure NPE, Staton Techiya's litigation posture is exclusively as a plaintiff asserting its acquired patent portfolio. The company has brought one tracked case as a plaintiff and zero as a defendant. This case, like others it has filed, was lodged in the Eastern District of Texas, a venue often favored by patent plaintiffs.

A notable case involving Staton Techiya, LLC et al. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. et al., filed in 2021, was dismissed in May 2024. The court cited the "unclean hands" doctrine, finding that former Samsung lawyers, who later partnered with Staton Techiya through Synergy IP, allegedly obtained confidential Samsung documents for use in the lawsuit. While the specific case provided in the prompt's data (filed November 5, 2021) was dismissed with prejudice by joint stipulation in December 2024, other related appeals concerning patent validity against Samsung at the Federal Circuit have affirmed lower tribunal decisions or PTAB invalidity rulings against Staton Techiya.