Defendant
8 cases as defendant.
Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. ("Avago General IP") was a Singapore-incorporated patent-holding entity with a registered address at 1 Yishun Avenue 7, Singapore. In PTAB filings it identified itself as "a subsidiary of Broadcom Ltd." Its corporate parent, Avago Technologies Limited, traces to HP's semiconductor division (1961), was spun off with Agilent Technologies in 1999, sold to KKR and Silver Lake Partners in 2005, and went public on NASDAQ in 2009. After acquiring Broadcom Corporation for roughly $37 billion in 2016, the parent was renamed Broadcom Limited and later Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO), which reported about $51.6 billion in fiscal 2024 net revenue and roughly 37,000 employees (Broadcom FY2024 Form 10-K; Broadcom/SEC subsidiary filings).
The company itself does not appear to have been an operating business. It functioned as an intellectual-property holding and licensing vehicle for patents originating from Broadcom Corporation, LSI Corporation and Agere Systems — including MPEG decoder/transport, video symbol binarization, audio coding and synthesis, multidirectional communications, system-on-chip networking and media-processing patents. A 2018 Delaware Chancery complaint by Realtek alleged that Avago General IP assigned its license rights to a newly created affiliate, Avago Sales, and dissolved after late 2017; that assertion is a party allegation, not a court finding.
The tracked docket reflects a two-way posture typical of a group licensing arm rather than an independent NPE. Avago General IP appears as plaintiff four times, all district-court infringement suits: Avago v. Funai Electric (E.D. Tex.), and suits against ASUSTeK/ASUS, Acer and Amazon, several filed in the Eastern District of Texas and transferred to the Northern District of California. It appears as defendant eight times, all defensive challenges — inter partes reviews at the PTAB brought by Amazon, Advanced Micro Devices, Sony and ASUSTeK, plus a Funai action in N.D. Cal. The cluster of E.D. Tex. filings is consistent with the plaintiff-friendly venue strategy common to that period.
The most prominent tracked matters are the C.D. Cal. action Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. et al. v. Amazon.com, Inc. et al. (Judge James V. Selna) and the companion Broadcom Corporation et al. v. Sony Corp. et al., which drew the Amazon and AMD IPR petitions. Reported products at issue included televisions, set-top boxes, PCs and networking equipment, reflecting the consumer-electronics and broadband/networking patent portfolios the entity asserted.
Amazon.com, Inc. petitioned for inter partes review of U.S. Patent 5,870,087; the petition was dismissed on petitioner's motion on 2017-11-06.
AMD and ATI petitioned for inter partes review of the '663 patent. Proceeding terminated due to settlement on Sept. 6, 2017.
Advanced Micro Devices and ATI petitioned for inter partes review of U.S. Patent 6,744,387; the proceeding terminated on 2017-09-06 after a joint motion to dismiss, before institution.
Amazon and AWS petitioned for inter partes review of the '663 patent. Institution was denied on Sept. 13, 2017.
Amazon.com and Amazon Web Services petitioned for inter partes review of claims 1–6 of U.S. Patent 6,744,387; institution was denied on 2017-09-13.
Sony Corporation petitioned for inter partes review of claims 1–3, 5, 7, 10–13, and 16–18 of U.S. Patent 5,870,087; the proceeding was terminated by settlement.
ASUSTeK Computer, Inc. and ASUS Computer International petitioned for inter partes review of claims 1, 5, 7–11, and 16 of U.S. Patent 5,870,087; instituted 2016-08-22 and terminated by settlement on 2017-05-16 without a final written decision.
Funai Electric Company Ltd. et al. filed an action against Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. in N.D. Cal.; outcome not established. Google family page shows an alternative case number, 5:15-cv-04307.