Company overview. Hisense International Co., Ltd. (海信国际) is the overseas sales, marketing and distribution arm of the Hisense group, headquartered at Hisense Tower, 17 Donghai West Road, Qingdao, Shandong, China. The Her Hisense group traces to September 1969, when it began as Qingdao No. 2 Radio Factory; Hisense International itself was incorporated in 1988 (Bloomberg/MarketScreener). It is not itself listed; it sits under Hisense Holdings within Hisense Group, whose affiliation with the Qingdao SASAC was diluted by a 2020 mixed-ownership reform, with remaining equity split among employee shareholding platforms and private investors (HKEX filings). Group-level scale is roughly 80,000 employees and RMB ~175 billion revenue (2021, Wikipedia/Hisense); no separate headcount or revenue figure for Hisense International was verified.
Products / services / operations. Hisense International is an operating company, not an NPE. Its registered scope covers import/export, marketing planning, sales of smart-home consumer devices and optical-communication equipment, information-system integration, and rail-transit systems and components. At group level the commercial portfolio includes Hisense-brand televisions and laser TVs (with Toshiba TV/REGZA, Vidda and, via acquisition, gorenje, ASKO, Sanden, Kelon and Ronshen brands), refrigerators, washing machines and air conditioners, plus B2B lines in intelligent transportation, optical modules and medical devices.
Patent-litigation posture. Hisense International appears in the database solely as a defendant (0 plaintiff cases, 1 defendant case) — the profile of an operating company being sued rather than a patent asserter. The single tracked matter is Flexiworld Technologies, Inc. v. Hisense Co., Ltd. et al., filed 24 June 2022 in the Eastern District of Texas (Marshall Division, Judge Rodney Gilstrap), a plaintiff-friendly venue. The plaintiff, Flexiworld Technologies, is classified as a non-practicing entity by Stanford's NPE Litigation Database and has been challenged at the PTAB and in reexaminations by Unified Patents (including IPR2022-00775 on U.S. 9,836,257).
Notable case context. Flexiworld filed the E.D. Tex. suit against numerous Hisense entities, asserting wireless device-pairing and content-streaming patents against Hisense smart TVs (Android TV, Google TV, Roku TV, X Class TV, Smart Laser TV), soundbars and the RemoteNow app. Parallel complaints (2:22-cv-00227/-00228) were filed the same day, and the dispute was later transferred to the Northern District of Georgia (1:22-cv-04337/-04338/-04371).