Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd. (华为投资控股有限公司; commonly "Huawei") is a private, employee-owned Chinese holding company headquartered at Huawei Base, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. Huawei traces its founding to 1987; the holding entity itself was incorporated in 2003. It is not publicly traded — as of December 31, 2025 it was wholly owned by 169,054 current and retired employee beneficiaries, with founder Ren Zhengfei holding roughly 0.59%. Huawei's corporate fact sheet reports about 213,000 employees across 170+ countries, and 2025 revenue of CNY 880.9 billion (Fortune lists roughly $122.6B in revenue). Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. is its principal operating subsidiary.
Huawei is a major information and communications technology vendor. Its businesses include carrier network equipment (5G radio access, optical transport, core networks), enterprise and cloud offerings (Huawei Cloud, CloudMatrix AI infrastructure), consumer devices (Mate and Pura smartphones, wearables, tablets, HarmonyOS ecosystem), smart automotive components, and semiconductor design through HiSilicon. It also maintains one of the larger patent portfolios in wireless communications and participates in numerous standards bodies.
Patent-litigation posture: In our tracked data Huawei Investment & Holding appears once, as a defendant (0 plaintiff cases, 1 defendant case). That pattern is consistent with an operating company being targeted rather than an entity asserting patents; the case sits in the plaintiff-friendly Eastern District of Texas. Note that this dataset is narrow — Huawei is separately a substantial patent holder and has brought its own assertion actions, including against Verizon, but those are not reflected in the tracked list above.
Notable case: Fundamental Innovation Systems International LLC v. LG Electronics, Inc. et al., No. 2:16-cv-01424 (E.D. Tex.), consolidated with the LG action No. 2:16-cv-01425. Plaintiff FISI — a licensor of USB charging and power-management patents originating from Research In Motion/BlackBerry — asserted seven patents (including U.S. 7,239,111, 7,791,319, 7,893,655 and 8,624,550) against Huawei entities (Huawei Investment & Holding, Huawei Technologies, Huawei Device USA, Futurewei) and LG. Accused products included Huawei handsets and power adapters such as the Honor 8, P9, Mate 8, and MediaPad M2.