Defendant

Hisense Electronica Mexico

1 case as defendant.

Cases
1
Active
1
0 closed
Filed
2022
Top venue
E D Tex Judge Rodney Gilstrap
1 case

Company profile

Hisense Electrónica México, S.A. de C.V. (registered ID SEM971127NA5; LEI 4469000001DQSM5KKC39) is a Mexican manufacturing subsidiary of the China-based Hisense Group. It is headquartered at Blvd. Sharp 3510, Parque Industrial Rosarito, Playas de Rosarito, Baja California (C.P. 22710), with a Mexico City corporate address also on record. Hisense Group's listed arms — Hisense Visual Technology (SSE: 600060) and Hisense Home Appliances Group (SZ: 000921 / HKEX: 0921) — trace to Hisense Group Holding, which after a 2020 mixed-ownership reform has no effective controller; Hisense Group Ltd., the largest shareholder, is ultimately owned by the Qingdao municipal SASAC via Qingdao Huatong. Hisense Mexico is reported to have entered the Mexican market around 2011 (the company marked 15 years there in 2026).

Operations. The entity is registered in Mexico as a manufacturer of audio and video equipment and operates as an export maquiladora in Rosarito. Its principal activity is final assembly and distribution of consumer electronics: televisions (including flat-panel and smart TVs) and "línea blanca" home appliances such as refrigerators and air conditioners, plus component sourcing. Trade records show heavy inbound component flows from China (and Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Vietnam) through Ensenada and Tijuana and outbound TV shipments to the United States, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. Size estimates conflict across commercial data providers — headcount is cited variously at roughly 1,700 to 4,000 and revenue figures vary widely, so no single figure is reliable; it is classified as a large ("gran empresa") single-site operation.

Litigation posture. This is an operating company being sued, not an asserter. Its tracked record is one case, zero as plaintiff and one as defendant — the profile of a manufacturing defendant targeted in a patent campaign. The single E.D. Tex. suit (below) sits in a plaintiff-friendly venue.

Notable case. Flexiworld Technologies, Inc. v. Hisense Co., Ltd. et al., No. 2:22-cv-00225 (E.D. Tex., Judge Rodney Gilstrap, filed June 24, 2022), named Hisense Electrónica México alongside a dozen Hisense and Qingdao-Huatong affiliates. Plaintiff Flexiworld Technologies is classified as a non-practicing entity in Stanford's NPE Litigation Database; the complaint asserted wireless-connectivity patents (e.g., U.S. 10,140,073; 10,387,087) against Hisense Smart TVs, soundbars and the RemoteNow app. The case was transferred to the N.D. Ga. on venue motion and several affiliates were dismissed.

Sources: LEI.info; Mexico business registries; Mexico's gob.mx industrial directory; Hisense corporate filings; Dockets.Justia.com; Stanford NPE Litigation Database; Lexology/Georgia IP Litigation blog.

Flexiworld Technologies, Inc. v. Hisense Co., Ltd. et al.

active
Docket:
2:22-cv-00228
Filed:
2022-06-24
Patents:9042811

Flexiworld sued Hisense Co., Ltd. and numerous Hisense affiliates in the Eastern District of Texas. US 9,042,811 is part of the asserted patent set (partial group '408, '811, '088, '324, '056). The docket shows foreign-service waivers and answers due 12/3/2022; no final merits outcome was found.