Defendant
1 case as defendant.
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Company overview. The entity named in the case data is 深圳市睿联数字技术有限公司 — Shenzhen Reolink Digital Technology Co., Ltd. ("Reolink Digital" / 睿联数字) — a Shenzhen-based brand-operating subsidiary of the Reolink group. It was incorporated 29 December 2014 and is wholly owned by 深圳市睿联技术股份有限公司 (Shenzhen Reolink Technology Co., Ltd.), the group parent founded in 2009 by former Huawei HiSilicon engineers Liu Xiaoyu and Wang Aijun, headquartered in Nanshan District, Shenzhen. Reolink Digital is a private company; the parent filed for a ChiNext IPO in Shenzhen, but that registration was terminated, so no shares trade publicly.
Products / operations. Reolink Digital is an operating company, not an NPE. It markets and sells the group's "Reolink" brand of DIY home video-surveillance hardware: standalone IP cameras (wireless/battery, 4G LTE, PoE, Wi-Fi), multi-camera security kits, NVRs, and accessories such as solar panels, mounts, batteries and cable housings, plus a small cloud-storage service. Parent-group disclosures report revenue of RMB 1.37bn (2021), 1.65bn (2022) and 2.08bn (2023), with net profit of RMB 436m in 2023; the group reported 565 employees as of 30 June 2023. Over 98% of sales are overseas, predominantly via Amazon, eBay, AliExpress and the Reolink website. Reolink Digital's own standalone headcount is not clearly disclosed.
Patent-litigation posture. The tracked record shows Reolink Digital as a pure defendant (0 plaintiff cases, 1 defendant case) — the classic profile of an operating company targeted by an assertion entity rather than an aggressor.
Notable case. Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Reolink Digital Technology Co., Ltd., No. 6:21-cv-00608, W.D. Tex., Waco Division (Judge Alan Albright), filed 11 June 2021. Cedar Lane, a Canadian NPE formed in 2019 that asserts patents acquired from Intellectual Ventures, alleged infringement of US 6,972,790, 8,165,867 and 8,537,242 (image/AV data processing). The dispute settled in August 2021 for USD 10,000 with a worldwide perpetual licence; it was dismissed with prejudice on 16 September 2021.
Cedar Lane sued Reolink Digital in W.D. Tex., Waco Division, asserting US 8,165,867 along with US 6,972,790 and US 8,537,242. The parties settled for US$10,000 on 2021-08-09 with a worldwide perpetual license; Cedar Lane withdrew the suit and moved to dismiss.