Best Buy Stores, L.P. is a Virginia limited partnership and an operating retail subsidiary of Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE: BBY). Best Buy Co. was incorporated in Minnesota in 1966 and is headquartered in Richfield, Minnesota. It is publicly traded with no parent company and no holder of 10% or more of its stock. Best Buy Stores, L.P. is a wholly owned subsidiary of BBC Property Co., itself wholly owned by Best Buy Co.; BestBuy.com, LLC sits beneath Best Buy Stores, L.P. Best Buy Co. reported approximately $41.5 billion in revenue and roughly 85,000 employees in fiscal 2025.
Operations. Best Buy is a consumer-technology retailer and services provider with two reportable segments (Domestic and International, the latter covering Canada). It operated about 1,100 stores at fiscal year-end 2025, alongside e-commerce and in-home services. Major offerings and banners include Best Buy retail stores, BestBuy.com, Geek Squad technical support and repair, Best Buy Health (Current Health, Lively), Insignia and Best Buy Essentials private-label products, Pacific Kitchen and Home, TechLiquidators, and My Best Buy memberships. Top merchandise suppliers include Apple, Samsung, HP, Sony, and LG. This is a genuine operating company, not a shell or licensing vehicle.
Litigation posture. Best Buy Stores LP appears in the tracked database only as a defendant — 2 cases, 0 as plaintiff. That pattern is consistent with an operating company being attacked rather than an entity asserting patents. Both suits were filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division, a historically plaintiff-friendly venue for patent plaintiffs.
Notable cases. Both tracked matters were brought by Mirror Worlds Technologies, LLC: Mirror Worlds Technologies, LLC v. Apple Inc. et al. (filed 2013-05-23) and Mirror Worlds Technologies, LLC v. Dell Inc. et al. (2013-12-10, after claims against Apple were severed). Mirror Worlds Technologies was a subsidiary of Network-1 Security Solutions, Inc., which acquired the asserted portfolio (U.S. Patent No. 6,006,227, "document stream operating system") from the defunct Mirror Worlds, LLC. Best Buy was named as a downstream reseller, accused of inducing and contributing to infringement by selling Windows- and Mac OS-based computers and tablets obtained from Apple, Microsoft, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung — the manufacturer defendants in the same actions.