Defendant

Arrow Electronics

2 cases as defendant.

Cases
2
Active
0
2 closed
Filed
2018
Top venue
E D Texas Marshall Division
1 case

Company profile

Company overview. Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: ARW) is a Fortune 500 electronics distributor headquartered in Centennial, Colorado. Founded in 1935 as a Manhattan radio-parts retailer and incorporated in 1946, it went public in 1961. It employs roughly 22,000 people and generated about $30.9 billion in revenue in 2025, with a market cap in the $9–11 billion range.

Products / services / operations. Arrow is one of the world's largest distributors of electronic components and enterprise computing technology. It operates two segments: Global Components, which distributes semiconductors, interconnect/passive/electromechanical parts, and computing and memory products to OEMs and contract manufacturers (with engineering, integration, logistics, and supply-chain services), and Global Enterprise Computing Solutions (ECS), which supplies datacenter, cloud, security, and analytics solutions to value-added resellers and managed service providers, including through its ArrowSphere cloud marketplace platform. It serves customers in more than 85 countries across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific.

Patent-litigation posture. Arrow is an operating company that appears as a defendant, not a plaintiff, in the tracked case data: 0 plaintiff cases and 1 defendant case. Its single tracked appearance is a suit brought by Sentient Sensors, LLC — a plaintiff characterized by RPX and Ex Parte databases as a non-practicing entity — in the Marshall Division of the Eastern District of Texas, a venue known for NPE filings.

Notable cases / context. In Sentient Sensors, LLC v. Microsemi Corporation et al. (filed March 30, 2018), Arrow was named as a defendant alongside Microsemi Corporation and Microsemi SOC over U.S. Patent No. 6,938,177 ("Multi-Chip Module Smart Controller"), which covers an FPGA-based instrument controller capable of running independent parallel processes — technology originally developed for aerospace and military monitoring applications. The case closed in April 2019; the patent's claims were later found invalid as obvious by the PTAB, a decision the Federal Circuit declined to disturb in 2026.