HP

HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ; commonly "HP") is a publicly traded technology hardware company headquartered at 1501 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, California. It traces its origins to Hewlett-Packard, founded by William Hewlett and David Packard in 1939; the 2015 separation of Hewlett-Packard Company created HP Inc. (PCs and printing) and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (enterprise IT). FY2025 (ended Oct. 31, 2025) net revenue was roughly $55.3 billion with about 55,000 employees, per Fortune and WSJ company data. It remains an independent, publicly listed company with no parent.

Products / operations. HP is an operating company, not a patent licensor. Its segments are Personal Systems (notebooks, desktops, workstations, displays, and related accessories) and Printing (consumer and commercial printers, supplies such as ink and toner, and print services). Recent strategic focus areas include AI-capable PCs, hybrid-work hardware, and subscription-style printing and services. Products relevant to the tracked case are its notebook and display lines.

Litigation posture. In the case data, HP appears once, as a defendant, with zero plaintiff-side filings — the profile of a large operating company defending against a non-practicing entity rather than an active two-way litigant. The single tracked suit, Innovative Display Technologies LLC v. Dell et al., was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, a plaintiff-friendly venue.

Case context. Plaintiff Innovative Display Technologies LLC is a patent-assertion entity and subsidiary of Acacia Research, per RPX and Acacia's own SEC filings. The asserted patents — the "Light Emitting Panel Assemblies" family (e.g., US 6,755,547; 7,300,194; 7,404,660) covering LCD backlight/light-guide technology — originated with Lumitex, passed through Rambus, and were transferred to Acacia in March 2013. In the June 2013 filing, IDT sued Dell, HP, Huawei, ZTE, BlackBerry, and Acer over notebook and display products. Note that at filing the defendant was Hewlett-Packard Company, the pre-2015-split entity.