Defendant

Hisense Int'l (HK)

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 Int'l (HK) is the trade name used in litigation for Hisense International (HK) Co., Limited (海信國際(香港)有限公司), a Hong Kong private limited company incorporated on 14 April 2008 and registered at Rooms 3101–05, Singga Commercial Centre, 148 Connaught Road West, Hong Kong. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hisense International Co., Ltd. (Qingdao) and part of Hisense Group Holdings Co., Ltd. (Qingdao, founded 1969). Hisense Group reported 2024 revenue of RMB 215.3 billion (overseas RMB 99.6 billion, 46.3%) and is listed on the Fortune China 500 with roughly 116,000 employees; it owns five listed subsidiaries including Hisense Visual Technology (600060) and Hisense Home Appliances (000921/00921). Some Hong Kong registry aggregators show this entity's English name later changed to "Welfarevega International (Hong Kong) Co., Limited"; that record is not corroborated elsewhere.

Operations. The entity functions as an offshore wholesale, procurement and export vehicle for Hisense Group product lines rather than a manufacturer or R&D unit: customs/bill-of-lading data shows shipments of air conditioners and parts (HS 8415), refrigerators and chest freezers (HS 8418/8418.30), and colour TVs and projectors (HS 8528), with counterparties including Hisense USA Corp. and third-party retailers. One trade-data aggregator records roughly 745 export shipments worth about US$56 million between 2021 and 2025. No independent financial statements are published for the subsidiary.

Litigation posture. The company appears once in our tracked data, solely as a defendant (0 plaintiff cases, 1 defendant case) — the classic signature of an operating company being attacked rather than an asserter. The suit is Flexiworld Technologies, Inc. v. Hisense Co., Ltd. et al., No. 2:22-cv-00225, filed 24 June 2022 in the Eastern District of Texas before Judge Rodney Gilstrap, a venue known for patent-plaintiff filings. Flexiworld Technologies is widely characterized as a non-practicing entity (Unified Patents calls it an NPE; Stanford's NPE database tags it "failed startup" and "acquired patents"), asserting wireless content-transfer and device-pairing patents. Hisense International (HK) was named alongside the parent and affiliates. Separately, Chinese government IP-dispute reporting states Maxell, Ltd. sued Hisense entities, including this one, in the Eastern District of Texas in August 2026; that matter is not in our tracked dataset.

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.