Plaintiff

WAG Acquisition, L.L.C.

3 cases as plaintiff.

Cases
3
Active
0
3 closed
Filed
2021
Top venue
W.D. Texas Waco
2 cases
Also appears as a defendant in 3 cases → View as defendant

Company profile

Company overview. WAG Acquisition, L.L.C. (styled "WAG Acquisition, LLC") is a Delaware limited liability company that functions as a patent assertion/licensing vehicle. It has no verified public headquarters; litigation filings indicate its records and evidence are located in the New Jersey/Pennsylvania area. The company publishes no financials, and no revenue, employee, or market-cap figures are publicly available — consistent with its status as a non-practicing entity. Unified Patents' PTAB database classifies WAG as an "NPE (Small Company)."

Products / services / operations. WAG has no operating business or products. Its sole asset is a family of streaming-media patents — including U.S. Patent Nos. 8,327,011 ("Streaming Media Buffering System"), 8,364,839, 8,185,611, 9,742,824, 9,729,594, 9,762,636, and 10,567,453 — covering buffering and delivery of audio/video streams over the internet. The patents trace to technology developed by SurferNETWORK (inventor Harold Price) with a September 2000 priority date and were later acquired by WAG. PatSnap describes the entity as a "patent assertion entity" and "streaming media patent licensing entity."

Patent-litigation posture. WAG is an NPE asserting an acquired portfolio. In the tracked data it appears as plaintiff in 3 district-court suits (against Disney in the Central District of California in October 2021; against Amazon and Google in the Western District of Texas, Waco Division, in August 2021) and as defendant in 3 PTAB proceedings — IPRs filed by Amazon, Google, and Disney in 2022 challenging those same patents. Its 2021 Waco filings targeted a venue known for plaintiff-friendly patent dockets.

Notable cases / context. The high-profile suits targeted major streaming services (Disney+, Amazon, YouTube/Google). Beyond the tracked docket, WAG has a broader enforcement history against webcam/live-streaming operators in the Eastern District of Texas and elsewhere (e.g., Technius/stripchat.com, Friendfinder Networks, Beronata), with several cases ending in with-prejudice dismissals consistent with licensing settlements. In August 2026 the Federal Circuit affirmed PTAB's invalidation of claims of the '011 patent as anticipated — a notable setback for the portfolio. Earlier IPRs (WebPower, Accretive Technology Group, Friendfinder) largely ended in procedural termination.

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WAG Acquisition, L.L.C. v. The Walt Disney Company et al.

stayed; resolved in defendants' favor
Docket:
2:21-cv-08230
Filed:
2021-10-18

WAG sued Disney, Disney Streaming Services, and Hulu in C.D. Cal. asserting three streaming-media patents. The case was stayed pending IPR and resolved in defendants' favor after the PTAB's final written decisions.

WAG Acquisition, L.L.C. v. Amazon.com, Inc. et al.

transferred; stayed; resolved in Amazon's favor
Docket:
6:21-cv-00815-ADA
Filed:
2021-08-06

WAG asserted three streaming-media patents against Amazon entities in W.D. Tex. The case was transferred to W.D. Wash. as No. 2:22-cv-01424, stayed pending IPR, and resolved in Amazon's favor after PTAB invalidated the challenged claims and the Federal Circuit affirmed.