Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company

Company Overview

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (HPE) is a publicly-traded American multinational information technology firm headquartered in Spring, Texas. It was founded on November 1, 2015, as part of the split of the original Hewlett-Packard Company. HPE trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol HPE. For the trailing twelve months as of January 2026, the company reported revenue of $35.7 billion and has approximately 67,000 employees.

Products and Services

HPE is an operating company focused on the enterprise technology market. Its primary product and service lines include servers, storage, networking, and high-performance computing, along with software and consulting services. The company's main business segments are Compute, Storage, Intelligent Edge (which includes Aruba and Juniper networking products), and High Performance Computing & AI. A significant part of HPE's strategy is its HPE GreenLake "as-a-service" offering, which provides a unified, pay-per-use hybrid cloud experience for customers, allowing them to manage their data and applications on-premises, at the edge, or in the cloud.

Patent-Litigation Posture

Based on the provided data, Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an operating company that defends against patent infringement suits. It has been a defendant in all four tracked cases and has not appeared as a plaintiff. Three of the four lawsuits were filed in plaintiff-friendly jurisdictions within Texas: two in the Western District and one in the Eastern District.

Notable Cases and Context

The lawsuits against HPE have been filed by non-practicing entities (NPEs). The plaintiffs include Athena Security, LLP; Gaea LLC; Fleet Connect Solutions LLC; and Atlas Global Technologies LLC. These entities appear to be engaged in asserting patents against multiple technology companies.

• Athena Security, LLP has an active litigation campaign concerning networking and security systems, asserting former Fortinet patents against companies like Google and Cisco in Texas federal courts.
• Gaea LLC is an NPE asserting patents related to data storage policies.
• Fleet Connect Solutions LLC, an entity related to Empire IP, has asserted patents related to wireless communications and fleet management against numerous defendants.
• Atlas Global Technologies LLC is an Acacia Research entity that has asserted patents related to Wi-Fi 6 technology against various technology companies, winning a significant verdict against TP-Link in the Eastern District of Texas. The patents asserted against HPE by Atlas Global relate to wireless networking technology.