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2 cases as plaintiff.
Vertiv Corporation is the principal U.S. operating subsidiary of Vertiv Holdings Co. (NYSE: VRT), a Delaware-incorporated, Columbus/Westerville, Ohio–headquartered critical digital infrastructure company. The business traces to 1946/1965 (Ralph and Eugene Liebert's Liebert Corporation), was acquired by Emerson Electric in 2000, sold to Platinum Equity in 2016 and rebranded Vertiv, and went public in February 2020 via a SPAC merger with GS Acquisition Holdings Corp. FY2025 net sales were $10.23 billion with roughly 34,000 employees (Vertiv Holdings Co. Form 10-K, Feb. 13, 2026; Wikipedia).
Products / services. Vertiv designs, manufactures and services data-center and mission-critical infrastructure: power management (UPS, rack PDUs, switchgear, busway, DC power), thermal management (precision and liquid cooling, chillers, Liebert-brand room cooling and iCOM controls), and IT infrastructure management (KVM and out-of-band management, monitoring software). Portfolio brands include Liebert, Avocent, Geist, NetSure, Alber, E+I Engineering and PowerBar; acquired assets include CoolTera (2023, liquid cooling), Great Lakes Data Racks (2025) and PurgeRite (2025). Services span preventive maintenance, acceptance testing, remote monitoring and spare parts across 300+ service centers. It is an operating company, not an NPE.
Litigation posture. In the tracked data, Vertiv appears once, as plaintiff and zero times as defendant: Vertiv Corporation v. Valtrus Innovations Ltd., U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division. This is an operating company on offense — a declaratory-judgment action rather than a defensive posture the case counts alone would suggest. The E.D. Tex. Marshall Division, before Judge Rodney Gilstrap, is a well-known patent-heavy venue.
Context. Valtrus Innovations Ltd. is a Dublin, Ireland–based patent assertion entity and successor-in-interest to a Hewlett Packard Enterprise data-center patent portfolio, with Key Patent Innovations Ltd. as trust beneficiary (Unified Patents; Stanford NPE database). Valtrus has sued numerous data-center operators and, per court filings, sent licensing demand letters to Vertiv customers; Vertiv's DJ complaint targets Liebert cooling equipment and iCOM/iCOM-S controllers across several expired HPE cooling patents, and Vertiv has stated it indemnifies its customers. Vertiv's DJ suit has been consolidated with related Valtrus litigation in the same district.
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Vertiv declaratory-judgment action consolidated with 2:24-cv-00361-JRG. Vertiv is also an intervenor in customer suits; Valtrus moved to dismiss for lack of case or controversy, and Vertiv opposed. Vertiv's DJ complaint pleads non-infringement of U.S. Patent 6,718,277.
Vertiv Corporation filed a declaratory-judgment action against Valtrus Innovations Ltd. seeking declarations of non-infringement/invalidity. The case was consolidated into Lead Case 2:24-cv-00361, and US 7,031,870 is among the patents addressed in the joint claim construction statement.