Defendant
2 cases as defendant.
Broadcom Corporation is the former Irvine, California–headquartered semiconductor company founded in 1991 by Henry Samueli and Henry Nicholas. It designed chips for wired and wireless communications from its 5300 California Avenue campus. In 2016 it was acquired by Avago Technologies in a roughly $37 billion cash-and-stock deal; the combined company took the Broadcom name, became Broadcom Limited (later Broadcom Inc., NASDAQ: AVGO), and is now headquartered in Palo Alto. Broadcom Corporation survives as an operating subsidiary of Broadcom Inc., not as a standalone public company. Parent-level scale (per Broadcom Inc.'s FY2024 results): about 37,000 employees and $51.6 billion revenue, with a market capitalization above $1 trillion at points in late 2024/2025.
Products / operations: Broadcom Corporation built communications semiconductors — set-top-box and cable/broadband SoCs, Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/GPS connectivity combos, Ethernet networking and switching silicon, RF filters and front-end components, and video/audio codec IP. Its set-top-box business was based in Irvine. The parent today also sells enterprise infrastructure software (VMware, CA, Symantec) and AI/data-center networking silicon.
Patent-litigation posture: Broadcom Corporation is an established operating company and a net patent enforcer, consistent with the case data: 3 plaintiff suits and 1 defendant matter. It asserts its own internally developed portfolio against large technology companies rather than acquiring patents to monetize. All three district court suits sit in the Central District of California — its home venue — not plaintiff-friendly venues such as the Eastern District of Texas, which is typical for operating-company enforcers rather than NPEs.
Notable tracked cases: Broadcom Corporation v. Sony Corporation (C.D. Cal., 8:16-cv-01052, filed June 2016) asserted roughly ten patents on AV decoding and related technology against Sony's PlayStation, Blu-ray and TV products; it closed in 2017. Broadcom Corporation v. Amazon.com, Inc. (C.D. Cal., 8:16-cv-01774, filed September 2016) asserted eleven patents, including U.S. 8,284,844 on multi-standard video decoding; Amazon filed PTAB inter partes reviews. Netflix, Inc. et al. v. Broadcom Corporation (PTAB, 2021) is a defendant-side matter in which Netflix challenged Broadcom video-encoding patents, paralleling Broadcom's set-top-box litigation against Netflix in the Northern District of California.
Netflix and Netflix Streaming petitioned for inter partes review of the '663 patent. Institution was denied on Aug. 9, 2021.
Rembrandt asserted U.S. 8,457,228 and U.S. 8,023,580 against Broadcom in a case noticed as related to 8:19-cv-00705. The narrative did not retrieve a primary-source docket entry confirming final disposition; the case appears to have been resolved or dismissed around the same period as related cases, but the disposition is unconfirmed.