Vertiv Corp.

Vertiv Corp. (Vertiv Holdings Co.) — Westerville, Ohio-based manufacturer of critical digital infrastructure, traded on the NYSE under VRT. The corporate parent, Vertiv Holdings Co., was incorporated in 2016 and taken public in 2020; the business traces its roots to 1946, when Ralph Liebert developed cooling for mainframe data rooms, and it was formerly Emerson Network Power. It reports roughly 34,000 employees and about $10.2B revenue for FY2025 (~$8.0B in FY2024). Vertiv Corporation, the Delaware entity named in the case data, is the operating subsidiary.

Products and operations. Vertiv designs, manufactures, and services power, thermal, and IT infrastructure for data centers, communications networks, and commercial/industrial facilities. Lines include uninterruptible power supplies and switchgear, busway, precision cooling and chillers, liquid cooling, racks and enclosures, power distribution, DC power systems, and infrastructure monitoring/management software, plus deployment and lifecycle field services. It operates in more than 130 countries.

Litigation posture. Vertiv is an operating company, not an NPE: the tracked docket shows it once as plaintiff and zero times as defendant. That single appearance is a declaratory-judgment action, Vertiv Corp. v. Valtrus Innovations Ltd., filed 2024-05-14 in the Northern District of Texas and transferred to the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division (2:24-cv-00907). Vertiv sued first rather than waiting to be accused, seeking declarations of non-infringement and intervening in suits Valtrus brought against Vertiv customers.

Case context. Valtrus Innovations Ltd. is an Irish entity that acquired a patent portfolio from Hewlett Packard Enterprise, holding the asserted patents in trust for Key Patent Innovations Ltd. — a structure typical of patent-assertion vehicles. Valtrus sued numerous data center operators (Digital Realty, CyrusOne, NTT Data, DataBank, TierPoint, and others) alleging infringement through use of Vertiv cooling equipment, and issued claim-chart letters to additional customers; Vertiv invoked its contractual indemnity obligations to those customers as the basis for its DJ action, and has also filed IPR petitions (e.g., IPR2025-00667) against the asserted patents. Case data lists only this one tracked appearance.