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Company overview. Hewlett-Packard Company ("HP") was an American multinational information-technology company founded in 1939 by William Hewlett and David Packard, headquartered in Palo Alto, California. On November 1, 2015, it split into two NYSE-listed companies: HP Inc. (ticker HPQ), which retained the PC, printer and legacy stock history, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise ("HPE"), which took servers, storage, networking and enterprise services. The suit below was filed against the pre-split Hewlett-Packard Company; HP Inc. is the relevant successor (Britannica; HP Inc. FY2024 Form 10-K). HP Inc. reported fiscal 2024 net revenue of $53.6 billion and roughly 55,000 employees, with FY2025 revenue of $55.3 billion; HPE moved its headquarters from California to Houston, Texas in 2020.
Products / services. HP Inc. is an operating company — not an NPE — selling personal computers, workstations (including AI PCs), printers and supplies, 3D printing systems, and related services and subscriptions, operating in more than 170 countries. Its FY2024 10-K states HP holds more than 22,000 patents. HPE sells servers, storage, networking gear and hybrid-cloud offerings.
Patent-litigation posture. The tracked record contains exactly one case, with HP appearing as a defendant (0 as plaintiff, 1 as defendant). That one-sided posture is the signature of an operating company being attacked rather than an entity asserting a portfolio.
Notable case and context. Innovative Display Technologies LLC v. Dell Inc. et al., No. 2:13-cv-00524 (E.D. Tex., Marshall Division, filed June 28, 2013; the related Dell case is 2:13-cv-00523), filed in a plaintiff-friendly patent venue. The plaintiff, Innovative Display Technologies LLC, was an Acacia Research Corporation subsidiary — its IPR filings name Acacia Research Group LLC and Acacia Research Corporation as real parties in interest — and asserted seven "Light Emitting Panel Assemblies" patents (e.g., 6,755,547; 7,300,194; 8,215,816) covering LED backlight/display assemblies used in notebooks and displays. The patents came from inventor Jeffrey Parker / Lumitex and were routed through Rambus before reaching Acacia. Acacia's March 2015 Form 8-K disclosed that IDT and Delaware Display Group entered a settlement and license with Dell and Hewlett-Packard resolving both actions.