Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Anker Innovations Technology Co., Ltd. (安克创新科技股份有限公司; commonly "Anker" or "Anker Innovations") is a Chinese consumer-electronics manufacturer founded in 2011 by former Google engineer Steven Yang (Meng Yang). It is headquartered in Changsha, Hunan, China, with more than 30 offices worldwide. It is publicly listed — A-shares on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange ChiNext board (300866.SZ) since 2020, and H-shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (0668.HK) following its July 2026 listing. The company reported about 6,239 employees as of June 30, 2026 (roughly 56% in R&D), FY2024 revenue of CNY 24.7 billion and FY2025 revenue of CNY 30.5 billion (net profit CNY 2.55 billion). Over 96% of sales are outside mainland China.
Products / operations. Anker designs and sells consumer electronics across three main segments and multiple owned brands: charging and energy storage (Anker-brand chargers and power banks; Anker SOLIX home solar and portable storage), smart home (eufy security cameras, video doorbells, robot vacuums), and smart audio/AV (soundcore audio, Nebula projectors), plus AnkerWork and eufyMake. Manufacturing is outsourced. Products sell in over 180 countries, largely via Amazon and direct-to-consumer channels.
Litigation posture. Anker appears in the tracked data as a defendant only (0 plaintiff cases, 1 defendant case) — consistent with an operating company targeted by a patent holder rather than a patent assertion entity. The single tracked suit is NEC Corporation v. Anker Innovations Technology Co., Ltd. et al., filed September 3, 2024 in the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division, before Judge Rodney Gilstrap — a plaintiff-friendly venue.
Notable case context. NEC asserts six U.S. patents on video/image object-detection and surveillance technology against eufy-branded smart doorbells, cameras and associated AI features. Anker moved for judgment on the pleadings on §101 grounds; NEC dropped one patent, and the court denied the motion as to the remaining three in June 2026. A related declaratory-judgment action by Power Mobile Life, LLC and Fantasia Trading, LLC (d/b/a AnkerDirect) against NEC was transferred from the Eastern District of Virginia to the Eastern District of Texas in late 2024; it is not in the tracked case list above.
NEC sued Anker over six patents, including US 11,537,814, targeting Anker/eufy smart-home security products. The court denied Anker's Rule 12(c) Section 101 motion as to the '526 and '814 patents, issued a Markman order, and set trial for September 11, 2026.