Web 2.0 Technologies, LLC et al. v. Google LLC
pending- Docket:
- 1:23-cv-00340
- Court:
- D. Del. (Judge Noreika)
- Filed:
- 2023-03-27
Filed asserting the '448 and '644 patents; status pending/other per docket summary.
Plaintiff
15 cases as plaintiff.
Company overview. Web 2.0 Technologies, LLC is a Delaware limited liability company with no operating business, website, or publicly reported headquarters, employees, or revenue. Its Rule 7.1 disclosure in Delaware filings states that no parents or affiliates are listed; publicly available sources do not identify its owners or funding sources. Stanford's NPE Litigation Database classifies it as a non-practicing entity (NPE), and its typical co-plaintiff is Pennar Software Corporation, which the same database characterizes as inventor-started (with the 2023 Delaware filings categorized as asserting acquired patents). Legal representation has come from the Devlin Law Firm (Timothy Devlin) and Robert Kiddie.
Products / services. The entity sells no product and provides no service. It is a patent-assertion vehicle. Its asserted portfolio centers on U.S. Patent No. 6,845,448 B1 ("online repository for personal information") and U.S. Patent No. 8,117,644 B2 ("method and system for online document collaboration"), with later filings asserting U.S. Patent No. 9,465,913. The claims are broadly drafted around storing personal or project information on a server and controlling other users' access to it — features common to essentially any permissioned web application.
Litigation posture. Purely one-directional. In the tracked data Web 2.0 Technologies appears as plaintiff in all 13 cases and as defendant in none — the classic NPE signature. The 2023 campaign targeted collaboration and project-management SaaS vendors, including Google, Zendesk, Miro (Realtimeboard), 37signals/Basecamp, ClickUp (Mango Technologies), Hive Technology, ProofHub, Workzone, Accelo, TaskWorld, Nulab, and Freedcamp. Venues were largely plaintiff-friendly: D. Del. before Judge Noreika, plus N.D. Ill., S.D.N.Y., and C.D. Cal.
Notable cases and context. Most 2023 suits ended in pre-answer or early with-prejudice dismissals (e.g., Hive, Miro, ProofHub, 37signals, Freedcamp), a pattern consistent with confidential settlements or licenses rather than merits rulings. Public docket aggregators show a separate, later campaign with Pennar Software against hospital systems in W.D. Tex. (Judge Albright) over electronic health records; in that campaign the asserted patents were held invalid under § 101 and claims dismissed with prejudice. These 2025 healthcare filings are outside the tracked case list above.
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Filed asserting the '448 and '644 patents; status pending/other per docket summary.
Settled in principle; action dismissed/discontinued without prejudice to reopening within 30 days (order Aug 2, 2023).
Stipulation of dismissal entered Dec 12, 2023. First Amended Complaint (Aug 10, 2023) added Pennar Software Corp. as plaintiff.
Motion to dismiss filed; Amended Complaint Nov 6, 2023; outcome not confirmed.
Open as of the last retrieved docket update (2023-03-28); the complaint asserted U.S. 6,845,448 B1 and U.S. 8,117,644 B2 against Freshworks, Inc.
Court granted Rule 12(b)(6) dismissal on 35 U.S.C. § 101, holding asserted claims of both the '644 and '448 patents ineligible; dismissed with prejudice.
Complaint filed 2023-01-13; defendant never appeared; Clerk's Entry of Default 2023-10-20; plaintiff's motion for default judgment was granted, with the court treating the cease-and-desist/permanent injunction request separately.
Web 2.0 Technologies, LLC sued Accelo, Inc. in D. Del. in the 2023 assertion campaign. Resolution not confirmed in sources retrieved.
Dismissed with prejudice by stipulated Rule 41(a)(1)(ii) dismissal; each side bears own costs. No merits ruling.
Dismissed with prejudice by joint stipulation under Rule 41(a)(1)(A)(ii) on Feb 5, 2024; each side bears own costs.
Filed in the 2023 campaign; outcome not confirmed.
Voluntarily dismissed with prejudice under Rule 41(a)(1) before any answer; plaintiffs relinquished future suits on these patents against ProofHub.
Complaint asserts both the '448 and '644 patents against an online project-management app associated with workzone.com; status not confirmed.
Voluntary dismissal with prejudice under Rule 41(a)(1)(A)(i) filed Apr 23, 2024, before answer.
Additional docket number identified on the Google Patents litigation record for US 8,117,644; defendants not confirmed in the narrative. Part of the 2023 assertion campaign described as asserting the '644 and '448 patents.