Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Cipherlab Co., Ltd. is a Taiwanese manufacturer of automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) products. Founded in 1988, the company has its headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan, and a significant North American office in Plano, Texas. Cipherlab is a public company, traded on the Taipei Exchange (TPEX: 6160). The company generates approximately $39.5 million in annual revenue and employs around 300 people.
As a global provider of AIDC solutions, Cipherlab designs and markets a range of products for various industries, including logistics, retail, manufacturing, and healthcare. Its main product lines consist of handheld mobile computers, barcode scanners (corded, cordless, and fixed), and RFID readers. The company's hardware is often integrated into business process systems for inventory management, field sales, and data collection.
Cipherlab's patent litigation profile is that of an operating company defending its products. The company has no record as a plaintiff in the database but is named as a defendant in one tracked case. This defensive posture is typical for technology manufacturers targeted by patent assertion entities.
The single tracked case, Althearidge LLC v. Cipherlab Co Ltd, was filed in April 2026 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, a venue known for patent litigation. The plaintiff, Althearidge LLC, is identified by industry sources like Unified Patents as a non-practicing entity (NPE), also known as a patent assertion entity. The suit alleges that certain Cipherlab mobile computers infringe on patents related to 4G LTE data technology.
The accused technology is a method for improving the reliability of wireless communications by changing how data is encoded when it has to be re-transmitted due to an error.