Open Invention Network is an intellectual property company that was formed to promote Linux by using patents to create a collaborative environment. It promotes a positive, fertile ecosystem for Linux, which in turns drives innovation and choice in the global marketplace. This helps ensure the continuation of innovation that has benefited software vendors, customers, emerging markets and investors.

RPX Corporation (NASDAQ: RPXC) is a leading provider of patent risk solutions, offering defensive buying, acquisition syndication, patent intelligence, insurance services, and advisory services. Since its founding in 2008, RPX has introduced efficiency to the patent market by providing a rational alternative to litigation. The San Francisco-based company’s pioneering approach combines principal capital, deep patent expertise, and client contributions to generate enhanced patent buying power. By acquiring patents, RPX helps to mitigate and manage patent risk for its growing client network. Clients pay annual fees ranging from $60,000 to $6.6 million depending on company size, and automatically receive rights to the entire RPX patent portfolio. As of September 30, 2012, RPX had invested over $500 million to acquire more than 2,950 US and international patent assets and rights, and had a client network of 128 members active in seven key sectors: consumer electronics and PCs, E-commerce and software, financial services, media content and distribution, mobile communications and devices, networking, and semiconductors. RPX promises it will never assert patents or patent rights in its portfolio.

Adobe, Inc. engages in the provision of digital marketing and media solutions. It operates through the following segments: Digital Media, Digital Experience, and Publishing and Advertising. The Digital Media segment offers creative cloud services, which allow members to download and install the latest versions of products, such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Adobe InDesign, as well as utilize other tools, such as Adobe Acrobat. The Digital Experience segment provides solutions, including analytics, social marketing, targeting, media optimization, digital experience management, and cross-channel campaign management, as well as premium video delivery and monetization. The Publishing and Advertising segment includes legacy products and services for eLearning solutions, technical document publishing, web application development, and high-end printing. The company was founded by Charles M. Geschke and John E. Warnock in December 1982 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Expanding 4.5 million fixed lines to 20 million in just 12 years, kt introduced universal telephone service to every citizen of Korea, leading the development and advancement of communications services. More recently, kt established an advanced broadband network for the first time in Asia, and launched Korea's first communication satellite 'Mugunghwa (Sharon's Rose)', contributing to making Korea one of the most advanced countries in information and communications. Since becoming a government-funded corporation in 1997, kt changed its business portfolio to focus more on wireless and internet services instead of fixed lines. Taking over Hansol M.com and merging with its subsidiary KTF, kt expanded its business scope and included mobile communication as its main service. kt became a privately owned company in 2002 and began concentrating on building broadband network. As a result, the company set several new records including the increase of ADSL subscribers to 6 million in just 3 years and played a leading role in the age of digital networking.

Meta is a social technology company that enables people to connect, find communities, and grow businesses. Previously known as Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg announced the company's rebrand to Meta on October 28, 2021, at the company's annual Connect Conference. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in Menlo Park, California in 2004. With millions of more users, [Friendster] attempted to acquire the company for $10 million in mid-2004. Facebook turned down the offer and subsequently received $12.7 million in funding from [Accel Partners] at a valuation of around $100 million. Facebook continued to grow opening up to high school students in September 2005 and adding a photo-sharing feature the next month. The next spring, Facebook received $25 million in funding from [Greylock Partners] and [Meritech Capital] as well as previous investors [Accel Partners] and [Peter Thiel]. The pre-money valuation for this deal was about $525 million. Facebook subsequently opened up to work networks eventually amassing over 20,000 work networks. Finally, in September 2006, Facebook was opened to anyone with an email address. Facebook continued to receive funding most notably in January 2011 receiving $1.5 billion and valuing the company at $50 billion. A year later in February 2012, Facebook announced that it was filing for its long-anticipated initial public offering. The company went public on May 18, 2012 opening in [NASDAQ] with shares trading at $42.05. Facebook announced positive numbers in February 2012 upon filing for its IPO. As of July 2013, over 1.15 billion users have logged into Facebook every month and 669 million users daily. Mobile users now make up half of Facebook’s user base with 819 million monthly active. Facebook is one of the most trafficked sites in the United States. Additionally, Facebook is the top photo-sharing site with 250 million photos uploaded per day. The company has a strategic partnership with AXA Group to develop marketing and commercial collaboration in the digital, social, and mobile sphere. Meta is currently the owner of many applications and services such as Facebook App, Instagram, Whatsapp, Oculus VR, Pagemodo Pagebuilder, [RSS Graffiti], Huddle, and more. Facebook is the world’s largest social network with over 2.9 billion monthly active users.

Intralinks is a technology company that offers a range of firewall collaboration solutions. The company’s product range includes a virtual data room, which supports the complex process of managing strategic financial transactions; and a system that enables organizations to take lifetime control of their most important information and frees employees to reach new levels of productivity. Intralinks currently offers its services and products to industries such as financial services, life sciences, technology, and manufacturing.

Vodafone Holding GmbH provides mobile telecommunications services such as voice and data communications. It operates a digital network based on the GSM standard. The company is headquartered in Dusseldorf, Germany.

Kno2 develops a cloud-based health information platform designed to send and receive patient information electronically. Its cloud-based health information platform organizes, manages, shares, and captures unstructured patient information from the common sources such as paper-based documents, faxes, and digital images convert them in the right format, and make those available in patients portals of healthcare providers, enabling them to take critical medical decisions without delay.

Sony Music Entertainment (Japan), Inc. engages in the management and administration of its group companies. It also markets, discovers and develops artists, celebrities, entertainers and creators in the entertainment business. The company was founded in March 1968 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

SAP is a technology company that develops enterprise application software for companies and industries across diverse sectors. The company offers solutions covering various lines of businesses, including asset management, commerce, finance, human resources, manufacturing, marketing, sales, services, sourcing and procurement, supply chain, and sustainability as well as research and development, and engineering. It provides enterprise application software to various industries, including consumer, discrete manufacturing, public services, energy and natural resources, financial services, and many other services. In addition, the company offers SAP HANA, a platform that combines database, data processing, and application platform capabilities as well as simplifies application development and processing across big data sources and structures; and SAP HANA Cloud Platform which enables ease and flexibility in building, extending, and integrating business applications available to its partners, customers, and third-party developers. It also provides SAP Business Suite and SAP Business Warehouse as well as custom SAP HANA applications in the company’s cloud data centers. Additionally, the company provides analytic solutions such as enterprise business intelligence, agile visualization, and advanced analytics for information and data needs. It also offers design, rapid deployment, and custom development; support services, software updates, and enhancements; and consulting and training services. SAP was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Walldorf, Germany.

Freedom Solutions Group LLC provides software services. The company was founded by Thomas O'Sullivan and John Rigas in 1995 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Telarix, Inc. provides interconnect business optimization solutions to wireline, wireless, broadband, and VoIP communication service providers. It offers iXTools, a suite of software modules that provide service providers with management, optimization, and settlement solution for interconnect business. The company's iXTools solution includes iXConnect, a business intelligence platform that collects and manages business information, such as network infrastructure elements, products, route plans, rates, and agreements; iXRoute, which enables service providers to identify and automatically implement optimal routing strategies; iXTrade, an offer management and decision support solution that allows service providers to automate the buy and sell processes; iXBill, a interconnect billing system; and iXAudit, an end-to-end audit and dispute management system designed to streamline the validation of interconnect invoices, reconcile charges, and manage settlements. It also provides implementation services, including business analysis, configuration/delivery, integration, training, and customization; and support services, such as project management, business analysis, product upgrade configuration, product upgrade delivery, hardware configuration support, feature request analysis and implementation, and help desk support services. The company serves customers in Asia, Europe, and North and South America. It has a strategic alliance with Infosys Technologies, Ltd. The company was formerly known as Emerging Technologies Group, Inc. Telarix, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Vienna, Virginia.

F5 powers applications from development through their entire lifecycle, across any multi-cloud environment, so our customers—enterprise businesses, service providers, governments, and consumer brands—can deliver differentiated, high-performing, and secure digital experiences. Unique to F5 is its extensible application delivery platform, iRules, which allows application and security architects the ability to offload and implement commodity features and proactively deploy security and application related functionality that improves application deployments without requiring changes to those applications.

Hand Held Products, a Welch Allyn Affiliate, was founded with the acquisition of Hand Held Products, Inc. by Welch Allyn Data Collection, Inc. (d/b/a Hand Held Products) in the summer of 1999. A "perfect marriage of technology, products and people," the combined company is dedicated to the design and development of affordable, high-performance, image-based data collection systems for the transportation, postal, warehousing, distribution, manufacturing, and retail markets.

Cyclone Commerce, Inc. is an enterprise software company. Cyclone Commerce provides 'open business connection' software that translates among a large number of protocols, enabling companies to communicate over the Internet without requiring changes to their existing technologies. It is located in Scottsdale, AZ.

Vizional develops enterprise-class and RFID-enabled software applications that improve the efficiency and effectiveness of business processes involved with the high-velocity distribution, movement, and tracking of assets and inventory. Building on a five-year foundation of supply chain management and visibility solutions to Fortune 500 companies, Vizional provides services in the market for RFID-enabled supply chain applications. With its headquarters in El Segundo in California and managed by supply chain industry veterans, Vizional caters to the business needs of the extended supply chain in the logistics, transportation, and retail industries. Vizional has delivered Event-Driven Supply Chain Management solutions for global customers including Maersk Logistics, Philips Semiconductors, and ST Microelectronics.

American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc. engages in the provision of financial and travel related services to consumers and companies. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.