Defendant

Huawei Device USA

3 cases as defendant.

Cases
3
Active
0
3 closed
Filed
2012–2016
Top venue
E D Tex
1 case

Company profile

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Company overview. Huawei Device USA, Inc. was a Texas corporation with its principal office at 5700 Tennyson Parkway, Plano, Texas — Huawei's U.S. headquarters (per court Rule 7.1 disclosures). It was a wholly owned subsidiary of Huawei Device (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd., itself under Huawei Device (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. and ultimately Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd. of Shenzhen. Parent Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. is private and employee-owned, with 2024 revenue of CNY 862.1 billion (~US$118 billion), net profit of CNY 62.6 billion, and roughly 208,000 employees worldwide (Huawei 2024 Annual Report, KPMG-audited). No separate subsidiary-level headcount or revenue figures are published. Per a 2024 corporate disclosure in E.D.N.Y. litigation, Huawei Device USA adopted a plan of dissolution effective January 16, 2023.

Products / operations. The entity operated as the U.S. consumer-devices arm of Huawei, marketing and selling Huawei-branded smartphones (Ascend/Mate lines, later Honor and P-series handsets), tablets, and wearables such as the TalkBand, through U.S. carriers including AT&T, T-Mobile, MetroPCS, and Leap Wireless, and later directly via GetHuawei.com. This is an operating-company affiliate, not a shell licensor. Its U.S. commercial activity effectively wound down amid U.S. restrictions on Huawei (2019 Entity List designation and related measures).

Patent-litigation posture. Defendant only: 1 tracked case as defendant, 0 as plaintiff. That profile — an operating company on the receiving end, never a filer — is the opposite of a non-practicing entity.

Notable case / context. The sole tracked matter is Fundamental Innovation Systems International LLC v. LG Electronics, Inc. et al. (E.D. Tex., Marshall Division, No. 2:16-cv-01425), where Huawei Device USA was a co-defendant alongside LG and other Huawei entities. Plaintiff FISI was formed in Delaware in 2015, backed by private-equity firm Centerbridge Partners, and acquired the asserted USB-charging/power-management patents from BlackBerry in November 2015; RPX reports roughly 20 FISI suits against Apple, Samsung, LG, ZTE, Huawei and others, and Apple publicly characterized FISI as a patent assertion entity. Huawei Device Co. filed IPRs against the patents (e.g., IPR2018-00472, IPR2018-00485), and RPX later identified Huawei among FISI licensees. The E.D. Tex. venue is a plaintiff-friendly district typical of NPE campaigns.

Fundamental Innovation Systems International LLC v. Huawei Investment & Holding et al.

Docketed
Docket:
2:16-cv-01424
Filed:
2016-12-16
Patents:8541983

Family-level FISI enforcement action against Huawei entities in the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division, before Judge Gilstrap. The narrative lists the case as docketed and does not confirm that 8541983 specifically was asserted.

Technology Properties Limited LLC et al. v. Acer Inc. et al.

no violation; investigation terminated
Docket:
337-TA-853
Filed:
2012-07-24
Terminated:
2014-02-19
Patents:5809336

ITC investigation asserting claims 1, 6, 7, 9–11 and 13–16 of the '336 patent. ALJ found no violation of Section 337; Commission affirmed no-infringement findings and terminated the investigation. Several respondents settled earlier.

Fundamental Innovation Systems International LLC v. LG Electronics, Inc. et al.

claim construction held; later outcome not confirmed
Docket:
2:16-cv-01425
Court:
E.D. Tex.
Patents:7834586

FISI sued LG and Huawei entities in E.D. Tex. asserting the '586 patent. Claim construction was held on 2018-03-26; later outcome not confirmed.