Company overview. "Hisense Int'l Co." corresponds to Hisense International Co., Ltd. (Chinese: 青岛海信国际营销股份有限公司, "Hisense International Marketing"), the overseas brand-building and sales platform of the Hisense Group. It is headquartered in Qingdao, Shandong, China and is not itself listed; it sits within Hisense Group / Hisense Holdings, a Chinese state-owned enterprise ultimately controlled by the Qingdao municipal government. Hisense Group was founded in 1969 and its publicly traded arms include Hisense Visual Technology (SSE: 600060) and Hisense Home Appliances Group (SZSE: 000921; HKEX: 0921). Group-wide headcount is reported at over 100,000 employees, with 2024 group revenue of roughly RMB 215 billion (about US$30 billion). Sources differ on the subsidiary's own founding year (1988 per MarketScreener data; the group dates to 1969); no separate financials for Hisense International are published.
Products / operations. Hisense International handles overseas marketing, sales and distribution of the group's consumer electronics and appliances. The group's major product lines include televisions (LED, laser and smart TVs), refrigerators, air conditioners, washing machines, kitchen and small appliances, soundbars, commercial displays and medical equipment, sold under brands including Hisense, Toshiba TV, gorenje, Kelon, Ronshen, ASKO and Vidda. It is an operating company, not a licensing vehicle; it holds no asserted patents in the tracked data.
Patent-litigation posture. Hisense appears once in the tracked data, exclusively as a defendant (0 plaintiff cases, 1 defendant case). This is the classic profile of an operating company targeted by a non-practicing entity rather than an active two-way litigant. The suit was filed in the Eastern District of Texas before Judge Rodney Gilstrap, a plaintiff-friendly venue, though it was later ordered transferred.
Notable cases. Flexiworld Technologies, Inc. v. Hisense Co., Ltd. et al., No. 2:22-cv-00228 (E.D. Tex., filed June 24, 2022), names Hisense International Co., Ltd. alongside Hisense Co., Ltd. and roughly ten affiliates. Plaintiff Flexiworld Technologies — characterized as an NPE by Unified Patents and Stanford's NPE database — asserted wireless-connectivity and streaming patents (e.g., U.S. 7,609,402; 10,140,072; 10,140,073; 10,387,087; 10,768,871) against Hisense smart TVs, soundbars and the RemoteNow app. Related parallel suits were transferred to the Northern District of Georgia, where Hisense's U.S. affiliate is based.