Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Green Tomato Limited (commonly "Green Tomato" or "GreenTomato"/"GT") is a Hong Kong–based private digital technology and consultancy company. The entity was incorporated in Hong Kong on 10 July 2000 under the name Global Regency Limited and renamed Green Tomato Limited in March 2003; the business is generally described as established in 2003 by co-founders including CEO Sunny Kok. It is privately held with no public ticker. Registered/office addresses are in Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong (20/F, Harbourside HQ, 8 Lam Chak Street; earlier records list Kwun Tong). Hong Kong company-profile data lists roughly 144 employees at the Hong Kong location and three companies in the corporate family; company and press descriptions cite around 200–300 staff across about five regional offices. A 2015 Oriental Daily report described group annual turnover in the eight-figure Hong Kong dollar range. These figures are dated and should be treated as approximate.
Operations. Green Tomato is an operating company, not a patent assertion entity. It provides mobile and enterprise technology services — mobile app and web development, UX/UI design, systems analysis and project management, and digital innovation consulting — for a largely corporate client base. It also developed its own consumer apps, including TalkBox Voice Messenger, Hong Kong Movie and Timable, and operates an in-house startup accelerator, GT Studio. Publicly cited clients include AIA, AXA, Prudential, HSBC, BOCHK and BMW. It is not a patent licensor; no assertion activity is attributed to it.
Litigation posture. The tracked data show one case, in which Green Tomato is a defendant (0 as plaintiff, 1 as defendant): Uniloc USA, Inc. et al v. Green Tomato Limited, No. 2:16-cv-00731 (E.D. Tex., filed 5 July 2016, Judge Rodney Gilstrap). This is the classic pattern of an operating company defending against a serial NPE — Uniloc USA and Uniloc Luxembourg are well-documented patent assertion entities that filed parallel suits against Apple, Samsung, Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram and others in the plaintiff-friendly Eastern District of Texas.
Case context. The suit asserted U.S. Patent 8,243,723, covering instant voice messaging over packet-switched networks — technology relevant to Green Tomato's TalkBox app. The patent was challenged in IPR2017-00222 (petitioned by Apple, joined by Facebook and WhatsApp); the Patent Trial and Appeal Board found claims 1 and 2 unpatentable in a May 2018 final written decision. No further litigation involving Green Tomato appears in the tracked data.