Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO), commonly "Broadcom," is a Delaware-incorporated, publicly traded technology company headquartered at 3421 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, California. Its lineage is a consolidation: the original Broadcom Corp. was founded in 1991 by Henry Samueli and Henry Nicholas; today's entity emerged via Avago Technologies (spun from HP/Agilent, and tracing its founding date to 1961) and renamed itself Broadcom Inc. in 2018. Broadcom reports roughly 33,000 employees and, per its SEC filings, FY2025 revenue of about $63.9 billion; market capitalization has been reported in the $1.6–1.8 trillion range. It is an independent public company, not a subsidiary.
Broadcom operates two reportable segments. Semiconductor Solutions designs networking and connectivity silicon, custom AI accelerators (ASICs) for hyperscale customers, Ethernet switching/routing, fiber-optic components, RF filters and wireless connectivity (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS), broadband/access chips, storage adapters and controllers, and set-top box components; it is primarily fabless with some in-house manufacturing. Infrastructure Software sells mainframe and enterprise software, cybersecurity, and private/hybrid-cloud virtualization, built substantially through acquisitions of Brocade (2017), CA Technologies (2018), Symantec's enterprise security business (2019), and VMware (~$69 billion, closed November 2023).
Litigation posture: the structured data shows Broadcom as a defendant in its one tracked case and a plaintiff in none — the profile of an operating company being attacked rather than an assertion vehicle. In Rembrandt Wireless Technologies, LP v. Broadcom Incorporated et al. (No. 8:19-cv-00708, C.D. Cal., Santa Ana, filed 2019-04-15), Rembrandt — a Virginia limited partnership based in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, widely characterized as a non-practicing entity — asserted U.S. Patents 8,457,228 and 8,023,580 against Broadcom's Bluetooth Enhanced Data Rate–implementing chips.
The case is part of a Rembrandt campaign: parallel suits were filed the same day against Qualcomm (8:19-cv-00705) and earlier against Apple in the Eastern District of Texas, where the same patents had produced a $15.7M jury verdict against Samsung. The tracked venue is Broadcom's home district rather than a plaintiff-friendly Texas forum. No other litigation appearances are recorded here.
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.