Huawei Technologies USA, Inc. — Company Profile
Overview. Huawei Technologies USA, Inc. ("HTU") was the U.S. subsidiary of Shenzhen-based Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., the world's largest telecom-equipment vendor. HTU was headquartered at 5700 Tennyson Parkway, Plano, Texas, which also served as Huawei's North American headquarters for sales, marketing and support. HTU was an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd., the privately held parent whose shares are held roughly 1% by founder Ren Zhengfei and the remainder through an employee stock-ownership plan covering nearly 97,000 employees; no public company owns 10% or more. Notably, HTU adopted a plan of dissolution effective January 16, 2023, per its Rule 7.1 disclosure in Long v. MTN Group (E.D.N.Y. 2024). As a U.S. entity it was small — third-party databases list roughly 100–200 employees — dwarfed by the parent, which reported about 213,000 employees and RMB 881 billion (~US$128 billion) in 2025 revenue.
Products / operations. HTU's U.S. role was tied to selling and supporting Huawei's carrier and enterprise lines: mobile, core, optical and broadband-access network equipment, plus terminals/devices and cloud services. Related U.S. affiliates included Futurewei Technologies (R&D) and Huawei Device USA. HTU itself had no distinct product line and is now dissolved.
Litigation posture. Operating company and pure defendant — 0 plaintiff cases, 1 defendant case in the tracked data. It was sued, not asserting. The sole tracked suit, SmartPhone Technologies LLC v. Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. et al. (E.D. Tex., Tyler Division, filed April 3, 2012), involved a well-known NPE venue.
Notable case. The plaintiff, SmartPhone Technologies LLC, is a subsidiary of Acacia Research Corp. asserting patents acquired from Japan's Access Co. The case covered eight telecommunications/device patents. Huawei filed a parallel declaratory-judgment action in California; the Federal Circuit affirmed its dismissal on first-to-file grounds (Futurewei v. Acacia, 737 F.3d 704 (Fed. Cir. 2013)). Claims on five of the eight patents were dismissed before a pre-trial settlement in 2014.