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1 case as defendant.
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Exeeda, Inc. — spelled Exedea, Inc. in court and regulatory records — was a U.S. subsidiary of Taiwan's HTC Corporation (TWSE: 2498). It was incorporated in Texas, with its principal place of business at 5950 Corporate Drive, Houston, Texas. HTC's annual report records Exedea as established in December 2004, invested in by the group in July 2005, and liquidated in December 2011; an HTC corporate disclosure statement filed in litigation states it "ceased operations in December 2011" and was, during its existence, a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of HTC Corporation, held through HTC (B.V.I.) Corp. and an HTC investment entity. It is no longer an operating business, and its own headcount and revenue were never separately disclosed.
Products / operations. Exedea had no products of its own or patent portfolio. HTC's filings describe its business as "shipping center related business" — a distribution, fulfillment, and import arm for HTC's U.S. handset sales, operating alongside HTC America, Inc. of Bellevue, Washington. In practice it served as a U.S. importer of record and sales channel for HTC mobile devices.
Patent-litigation posture. Purely defensive in the tracked data: 1 case as defendant, 0 as plaintiff. Exedea appears only because it was the HTC group's U.S. importing/distribution entity, which made it a conventional co-defendant in U.S. patent suits against the HTC group — not because it held or asserted patents. The single tracked case is in the District of Delaware, not the Eastern District of Texas.
Notable case. Apple Inc. v. HTC Corp. et al., 1:11-cv-00611 (D. Del., filed July 11, 2011), named Exedea with HTC Corp., HTC (B.V.I.) Corp., HTC America, Inc., and HTC America Holding Inc.; Apple asserted U.S. Patent Nos. 7,844,915; 7,084,859; 7,920,129; and 6,956,564. Externally, Exedea was also a respondent in ITC Investigation 337-TA-710 (Apple/NeXT), a co-defendant in suits by Eastman Kodak and Immersion, and a counterclaimant in HTC actions against Apple and SoftView.
Apple asserted the '915 patent and other Apple patents against HTC in the District of Delaware. The court stayed the case pending ITC Investigation No. 337-TA-797 under 28 U.S.C. § 1659. It was later dismissed following the global Apple–HTC settlement.