Defendant

Huizhou TCL Mobile Comm.

1 case as defendant.

Cases
1
Active
0
1 closed
Filed
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Top venue
D. Delaware
1 case

Company profile

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Huizhou TCL Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. (Chinese: 惠州TCL移动通信有限公司) is the principal Chinese manufacturing subsidiary of TCL Communication Technology Holdings Limited, the handset/terminal arm of TCL. It was established 29 March 1999 and is headquartered at No. 86 Hechang 7th West Road, Zhongkai Hi-tech Development District, Huizhou, Guangdong, China. It is a foreign-invested limited liability company with registered capital of roughly US$240 million; Chinese corporate registries list 1,461 insured employees (2024) in the 1,000–1,999 band. It is not itself publicly traded. Its ultimate parent, TCL Communication, was privatized by T.C.L. Industries Holdings (H.K.) Limited and delisted from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (formerly 2618.HK) effective 30 September 2016; that vehicle is wholly owned by TCL Corporation / TCL Technology (Shenzhen: 000100). TCL Communication, the group, reported roughly 13,500 employees in 2016.

Operations. The entity develops, manufactures and sells mobile terminal products — feature phones, smartphones, tablets, routers and wearable smart devices — alongside smart-vehicle devices, smart home products, robotics, projection equipment and related components, per its registered business scope and TÜV Rheinland certificates ("manufacture of mobile communication terminal products"). Its Huizhou site runs SMT production lines and holds ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, ISO 50001 and TL9000 certifications. Group products are sold under the TCL and Alcatel brands in China and 160+ countries.

Litigation posture. This is an operating company, not an NPE. In the tracked data it appears as a defendant once and as a plaintiff zero times: Fundamental Innovation Systems International LLC v. TCT Mobile (US) Inc. et al., D. Del. (No. 1:20-cv-00552). Fundamental Innovation Systems is a patent-assertion entity holding BlackBerry-origin USB charging patents (e.g., U.S. 7,239,111 and 7,834,586). Huizhou TCL Mobile was named a real party in interest alongside TCT Mobile (US), TCT Mobile (US) Holdings and TCL Communication, Inc. in related Petitions for Inter Partes Review (e.g., IPR2021-00597/598/599). The case sits in the District of Delaware, not the Eastern District of Texas, though the same NPE asserted the patents against Coolpad in E.D. Tex. (2:20-cv-00117). No plaintiff-side assertion activity by this entity is recorded here.

Fundamental Innovation Systems International LLC v. TCT Mobile (US) Inc. et al.

Docketed
Docket:
1:20-cv-00552
Patents:8541983

Family-level FISI enforcement action against TCT Mobile and TCL entities in the District of Delaware, listed as docketed. The narrative does not confirm that 8541983 specifically was asserted.