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BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. ("BOE")
Company overview. BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. (京东方科技集团股份有限公司), commonly "BOE," is headquartered at No. 12 Xihuan Middle Road, Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area, Beijing, China. It was founded in April 1993 out of the former Beijing Electron Tube Factory and is publicly listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (A shares 000725; B shares 200725). It is state-linked: Beijing State-owned Capital Operation and Management Co. is the largest shareholder and the group is associated with Beijing Electronics Holdings Co., Ltd. Fiscal 2024 operating revenue was RMB 198.38 billion (about US$28.5 billion) with net profit attributable to shareholders of RMB 5.32 billion; GlobalData lists roughly 110,000 employees and a market capitalization near US$31 billion.
Products / operations. BOE is an operating display and IoT manufacturer, not an NPE. Core segments: semiconductor display devices (TFT-LCD, AMOLED, Mini/Micro LED, microdisplays) for smartphones, tablets, notebooks, monitors, TVs and automotive; IoT innovation (smart terminals and system solutions); sensors and solutions (X-ray detector backplanes, smart windows, MEMS, glass-based packaging); MLED; and smart medicine/engineering. It operates numerous semiconductor display production lines across Beijing, Hefei, Chengdu, Chongqing, Fuzhou, Mianyang, Wuhan, Kunming, Suzhou and Ordos, with subsidiaries in roughly 20 countries, and reports more than 100,000 cumulative patent applications.
Patent-litigation posture. In our tracked data BOE appears once, solely as a defendant (0 plaintiff, 1 defendant) — consistent with an operating company defending competitor patent claims rather than a patent assertion entity. The single tracked suit, Samsung Display Co., Ltd. v. BOE Technology Co., Ltd. et al. (E.D. Tex., 2:23-cv-00309, filed June 2023), sat in the plaintiff-friendly Eastern District of Texas before Judge Rodney Gilstrap and was stayed under 28 U.S.C. § 1659 pending related ITC Section 337 proceedings.
Notable context. The dispute was two-way: Samsung Display asserted OLED pixel-circuit and pixel-arrangement patents plus trade-secret claims, while BOE counter-sued in Chongqing (2023) and filed U.S. counterclaims and IPRs (2025) over Samsung foldable devices. The 2023 EDTX case was dismissed without prejudice in June 2025, and in November 2025 the parties reached a global settlement terminating U.S. and Chinese proceedings, reportedly including cross-licensing. Related validity proceedings continued in China into 2026.