Let me verify the LSI litigation context and current corporate status.
Funai Corporation, Inc.
Company overview. Funai Corporation, Inc. is the U.S. sales and marketing subsidiary of Funai Electric Co., Ltd. (船井電機), a Japanese consumer-electronics manufacturer founded in August 1961 and headquartered in Daitō, Osaka. The U.S. operation has been based in Torrance, California (it appears as a New Jersey corporation with a Rutherford, NJ principal place of business in the 2012 ITC record below). Its parent was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TYO: 6839) until August 2021, when a tender offer by Shuma System Holdings completed and the shares were delisted; it was renamed Funai Electric Holdings Co., Ltd. in March 2023. The parent reported roughly 2,100–2,250 employees and net sales of ¥69.7 billion in FY2022, down sharply from a peak of ¥246.1 billion in FY2012. It entered quasi-bankruptcy proceedings on October 24, 2024, with reported liabilities of about ¥46 billion (~$303 million) as of March 2024.
Products / services / operations. Funai is an operating manufacturer and OEM. Its lines include LCD/OLED televisions; Blu-ray Disc and DVD players and recorders; and inkjet printers and ink cartridges. It also performs contract manufacturing for other brands. Funai has sold under its own name and licensed brands including Philips, Magnavox, Emerson, Sylvania, Symphonic, Sanyo and Kodak, and was a major supplier of flat-panel TVs to Walmart and Sam's Club. In 2013 it acquired Lexmark's inkjet technology and assets, including more than 1,500 inkjet patents.
Patent-litigation posture. Funai appears only as a defendant (0 plaintiff cases, 2 defendant cases) — an operating company on the receiving end of patent suits rather than an asserter. Both tracked matters are the same March 12, 2012 dispute: a § 337 complaint at the ITC and a parallel Central District of California action. Neither venue is an NPE-favored forum such as the Eastern District of Texas.
Notable cases. LSI Corporation et al. v. Funai Electric Co., Ltd. et al. (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-837) and the companion C.D. Cal. case were brought by LSI Corporation and Agere Systems — semiconductor operating companies, not NPEs — asserting U.S. Patents 5,870,087, 6,452,958, 6,707,867 and 6,982,663. The patents concerned audiovisual components (including DRAM memory-controller technology) and WLAN standards declared essential to IEEE/ITU. Co-respondents included MediaTek, Ralink and Realtek. The ALJ's July 2013 initial determination found a violation as to certain '087 claims but no violation on the '958, '867 and '663 patents; the '087 and '663 claims were later terminated by settlement, and the Commission found no violation as to the '958 patent in March 2014.