Defendant
3 cases as defendant.
DrayTek Corporation (Chinese: 居易科技) is a Taiwanese networking-equipment maker founded in 1997 and headquartered in the Hsin-Chu Industrial Park, Hsinchu City, Taiwan. It is a public company listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE: 6216) since its 2004 IPO. Employee count is reported at roughly 219 by financial data aggregators; MarketWatch lists FY2023 revenue of about NT$899 million, and Simply Wall St cited a market capitalization near NT$2.4 billion. These figures are third-party aggregations and may be dated.
Products / operations. DrayTek designs, manufactures and sells wired and wireless networking gear, chiefly for SMB and residential/SOHO markets, largely under the Vigor brand. Lines include VPN firewall routers, xDSL/VDSL and fiber (FTTx/XGS-PON) routers, multi-WAN load-balancing routers, LTE/5G cellular routers, Wi-Fi 6/7 access points, and managed PoE switches. Software and services include VigorACS 3 network management, VigorConnect, Smart VPN Client, DrayDDNS, and its in-house DrayOS operating system. Its portfolio has expanded to 10G/multi-gig, switch stacking and security features. It sells across Europe, Asia and Central/South America.
Patent-litigation posture. DrayTek is an operating company defending against an NPE suit: 0 cases as plaintiff and 2 tracked cases as defendant. Both tracked entries are the same matter — CommWorks Solutions, LLC v. DrayTek Corporation, filed 2025-01-13 in the Eastern District of Texas (2:25-cv-00024, before Judge Rodney Gilstrap, a venue widely used by patent plaintiffs).
Case context. CommWorks Solutions, LLC is characterized as a non-practicing entity and a subsidiary of IP Investments Group LLC (Unified Patents; Stanford NPE database). The E.D. Tex. complaint asserts six acquired wireless-networking patents — including U.S. 6,891,807, 7,177,285, 7,463,596, 7,911,979, RE44,904 and 7,027,465 — covering WPS provisioning and WMM/802.11 QoS traffic handling, accusing DrayTek Vigor router and VigorAP products. DrayTek obtained an extension to answer in April 2025; no merits rulings are reflected in the sources reviewed.
CommWorks sued DrayTek in E.D. Tex.; Exhibit E was an 'Evidence of Use Regarding U.S. Patent No. 7,027,465'. Further status was not verified in the narrative.
CommWorks Solutions, LLC filed suit against DrayTek Corporation in E.D. Tex. on Jan 13, 2025; the '596 patent was asserted. The docket number was reported as probable 2:25-cv-00024 but unconfirmed; outcome not confirmed.
CommWorks Solutions, LLC filed suit in E.D. Tex. against DrayTek Corporation. Exhibit D is evidence of use regarding RE44904. Status pending at last retrieval.