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Chicony America Group, Inc.

1 case as defendant.

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Company profile

Chicony America Group, Inc. is a U.S. subsidiary of Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd. (TWSE: 2385), a Taiwanese electronics manufacturer founded in 1983 and headquartered in Sanchong District, New Taipei City. Chicony Electronics' investment disclosures list Chicony America Group Inc. as a wholly owned (100%) U.S. entity in California's Orange County/Irvine area, with a stated investment of roughly US$3.1 million; an affiliated entity, Chicony America Inc., operates offices in Irvine and San Jose. The parent is publicly listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange and reported consolidated 2023 revenue of about NT$98.3 billion (≈US$3.1 billion) with roughly 27,600 employees group-wide (2023 annual report; MarketScreener).

The parent's operations cover three main product lines: keyboards and input devices (desktop and notebook keyboards, mice, touch pens), power supplies (desktop, notebook, and game-console units, largely through listed subsidiary Chicony Power Technology, TWSE: 6412), and image products (notebook camera modules, webcams, action cameras, and commercial security cameras). Chicony America Group functions as a U.S. sales/support arm rather than a manufacturer.

Its litigation posture is that of an operating company on the defensive. The tracked data show zero cases as plaintiff and one as defendant, consistent with a product company targeted by an assertion entity rather than a licensor asserting a portfolio.

The single tracked matter is Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Chicony America Group, Inc., No. 2:20-cv-01681 (C.D. Cal., filed Feb. 20, 2020), asserting U.S. Patent 6,972,790, "Host interface for imaging arrays." Cedar Lane is a Canadian non-practicing entity formed in 2019 by attorney Greg Benoit; RPX, Unified Patents, and Stanford's NPE database classify it as a patent assertion entity that acquired patents originating with Intellectual Ventures and has filed hundreds of suits. This case was filed in the Central District of California, not the plaintiff-friendly Eastern District of Texas.