Defendant
4 cases as defendant.
Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd. ("Huawei") is a privately held Chinese multinational headquartered at Huawei Base, Shenzhen, Guangdong (518129). Founded in 1987 by Ren Zhengfei, it is not listed on any exchange: it is wholly employee-owned, with the Union Committee of Huawei Investment & Holding holding roughly 99% of shares and Ren Zhengfei the remainder. It wholly owns the operating subsidiary Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Scale is large — approximately 208,000 employees and 2024 revenue of CNY 862.1 billion (about US$118–120 billion), with net profit of CNY 62.6 billion and R&D spending of CNY 179.7 billion (20.8% of revenue), per the company's 2024 annual report and Fortune Global 500 filings.
Operations. Huawei is an operating company, not an NPE. Its reported business segments are ICT infrastructure (carrier network equipment, including 5G), consumer devices (smartphones and wearables on HarmonyOS), cloud computing (Huawei Cloud), digital power/energy solutions, and intelligent automotive components and systems (HUAWEI ADS, HarmonySpace cockpit), alongside AI offerings such as Pangu models and Ascend/Kunpeng computing. The company states it holds more than 150,000 active patents worldwide.
Litigation posture. In the tracked data, Huawei appears in 4 cases, all as a defendant and none as plaintiff — consistent with an operating company being targeted rather than a patent assertion entity. All four tracked matters are the same dispute: Fundamental Innovation Systems International LLC v. Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd. et al., filed 2016-12-16 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (Marshall Division), a historically plaintiff-friendly venue.
Context. FISI is a Delaware-formed entity backed by private-equity firm Centerbridge Partners that acquired former BlackBerry/Research In Motion USB charging and power-management patents in 2015 and asserted them against numerous device makers (Apple, Samsung, LG, ZTE, Huawei, Lenovo, TCL, among others). Reporting by RPX and IAM describes FISI as a patent assertion entity that has signed numerous licenses; Huawei and other defendants entered licensing arrangements with FISI around 2018. The tracked cases reflect USB charging/power-management technology, not Huawei's core networking portfolio. Note that Huawei is, separately, a substantial patent holder and litigant globally, but this database records no plaintiff-side suits by it.
FISI's suit against Huawei and others was consolidated with 2:16-cv-01425 and settled; a joint motion to stay/notice of settlement was filed 9/4/2018, and the case was stayed pending dismissal.
Related FISI campaign case filed in E.D. Tex. It was consolidated with the LG action and stayed pending settlement. Narrative notes '319 was not independently confirmed as pleaded.
FISI asserted the '111 patent against Huawei entities in E.D. Tex. The action was consolidated with the LG action and stayed pending settlement; FISI announced licensing agreements with Huawei/LG/Samsung in 2018.
FISI asserted the '766 patent against Huawei entities. The action was consolidated with the LG action and stayed pending settlement. The LG/Huawei construction order covered the '586 and '766 patents.