HTC Corporation (High Tech Computer Corporation, trading as HTC) is a Taiwanese consumer electronics company incorporated in 1997 and headquartered at No. 23 Xinghua Road, Taoyuan City, Taiwan. It is publicly listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE: 2498). Reported headcount varies by source, in the range of roughly 2,000–4,000 employees. Revenue has fallen sharply: 2024 revenue was about NT$3.08 billion (roughly US$100 million), with an operating loss of NT$4.64 billion, per the company's 2024 annual report.
HTC designs, manufactures, and sells smart mobile devices and virtual reality hardware. Its current lines include the VIVE virtual reality headsets (PC-tethered and standalone), VIVE AI glasses, blockchain phones (Exodus), 5G hub products, wearables/IoT devices, and healthcare VR products, plus accessories and after-sales services. It began as a laptop ODM/OEM, later became an early Android handset maker, and in 2017 sold roughly half its smartphone design/R&D staff and non-exclusive smartphone IP rights to Google.
Litigation posture: HTC is an operating company defending against patent-assertion suits, not a patent plaintiff. In the tracked data it appears once — as a defendant — and zero times as a plaintiff. That one-sided profile is consistent with a product manufacturer being targeted by a licensing entity.
Notable case: Technology Properties Limited LLC et al. v. Acer et al., a U.S. International Trade Commission Section 337 investigation instituted in July 2012 (Inv. No. 337-TA-853). Complainants Technology Properties Limited, Phoenix Digital Solutions, and Patriot Scientific (portfolio administered by Alliacense) asserted the Moore Microprocessor Patent portfolio, including U.S. Patent No. 5,809,336 on variable-speed microprocessor clocking, against HTC and roughly a dozen other device makers (Acer, Amazon, Samsung, LG, Nintendo, Huawei, ZTE, and others), seeking an exclusion order. The ITC terminated the investigation with a finding of no violation of Section 337. The matter reflects the consumer-electronics and microprocessor-clock technology at issue.