Defendant

Coolpad

2 cases as defendant.

Cases
2
Active
0
2 closed
Filed
2020
Top venue
D Del
1 case

Company profile

Coolpad Group Limited (酷派集团; short name Coolpad) is a Hong Kong-listed telecommunications equipment company incorporated in the Cayman Islands on 11 June 2002 and listed on the HKEX (stock code 2369) since December 2004. It was formerly known as China Wireless Technologies Limited, renaming in January 2014. Corporate headquarters/principal PRC operations are in Shenzhen (Coolpad Information Harbor, Nanshan District), with a Hong Kong office in Wanchai. Its predecessor, Yulong Computer Telecommunication Scientific (Shenzhen) Co., dates to 1993. It is public but thinly traded, with an OTC US ticker (CHWTF); CEO is Jiajun Chen. FY2025 revenue was approximately HK$273 million with a net loss of about HK$111 million, and third-party data puts headcount near 225 — down sharply from its peak as a top-three Chinese smartphone brand.

Products/operations. Coolpad operates two reported segments. The mobile-phone segment designs, manufactures and sells budget smartphones and accessories and offers wireless application services, with product lines including the COOL series (COOL 20/30), Dazen/大观 5G models, and Fengshang (锋尚) handsets, running its in-house COOLOS UI. The property-investment segment holds and leases real estate, principally the Coolpad Information Harbor in Shenzhen and the Coolpad Technology Ecological Park in Dongguan. The company has more recently announced an AI-server line (2U–6U configurations) as an extension of its hardware business. This is an operating company, not a shell licensor.

Litigation posture. Coolpad appears in the tracked data once, solely as a defendant — consistent with an operating company being targeted rather than a patent aggressor. The single case is Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Coolpad (Coolpad Technologies Inc.), No. 1:19-cv-01648, filed 4 September 2019 in the District of Delaware and voluntarily dismissed by the plaintiff on 20 January 2020. Delaware, like the Eastern District of Texas, is a common venue for NPE filings.

Context. Cedar Lane Technologies is a Canadian non-practicing entity that acquired patents originating with Intellectual Ventures and has filed hundreds of suits, predominantly against technology and financial-services defendants. Separately, in 2018 Coolpad's Yulong subsidiary sued Xiaomi in China over smartphone-related invention patents; Coolpad stated in 2020 that it had voluntarily terminated those proceedings.