AQ Corp

AQ Corporation is a privately held South Korean company headquartered in Seoul. The company specializes in providing NFC (Near Field Communication) antennas to smartphone manufacturers and offers NFC Unified Solutions. AQ Corporation also develops solutions for the convergence of business models in various industries, including multimedia advertisement and information platforms such as digital signage, by integrating Active NFC Tag modules for bi-directional communication with NFC-enabled phones. The company employs between 101 and 500 people.

AQ Corporation's patent litigation posture indicates it is a patent owner whose intellectual property is being challenged. The company has no record of initiating patent infringement lawsuits as a plaintiff in the tracked database. Instead, it is recorded as a defendant in one case at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).

The sole tracked case is Samsung Electronics Co Ltd et al. v. AQ Corp, filed on January 26, 2026, at the PTAB. In this proceeding, Samsung Electronics is challenging a patent held by AQ Corp. [case data] This aligns with AQ Corporation's business as a supplier of NFC technology to smartphone makers, suggesting a dispute over patent validity relevant to the mobile device industry.