Johnson Controls International plc

Johnson Controls International plc (NYSE: JCI) is a publicly traded building-technology company headquartered at One Albert Quay, Cork, Ireland, with roots dating to 1885 (the current plc structure results from the 2016 Tyco merger). It employs roughly 87,000 people and reported fiscal 2025 revenue of about $23.6 billion, with market capitalization in the $80–95 billion range depending on date. It is an operating company, not a holding shell.

Its business is commercial building equipment and services: commercial HVAC equipment, industrial refrigeration, building controls and automation, fire detection and suppression systems, electronic security, and the OpenBlue digital building platform. Roughly 60% of revenue comes from commercial HVAC and 40% from fire and security products and services; the company divested its residential and light-commercial HVAC business to Bosch in 2025. Field operations include installation, maintenance, retrofit, and energy-management consulting across commercial, institutional, data-center, and government customers.

Litigation posture: Johnson Controls appears in the tracked data only as a defendant (0 plaintiff suits, 1 defendant suit), the profile of an operating company targeted by a patent assertion entity rather than an active litigant. The single tracked matter is Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Johnson Controls International plc, filed 2025-08-19 in the Eastern District of Texas (2:25-cv-00815, Judge Rodney Gilstrap), a plaintiff-friendly venue.

Cedar Lane Technologies is a Canadian-based NPE that Stanford's NPE Litigation Database lists as an acquirer of patents (reportedly sourced from Intellectual Ventures) asserting image-processing technology; public trackers credit it with hundreds of infringement suits, most resolved by settlement or voluntary dismissal. CourtListener docket entries show Cedar Lane voluntarily dismissed the 2025 Johnson Controls case in October 2025. A separate earlier Cedar Lane suit against Johnson Controls (6:22-cv-00539, W.D. Tex.) was also dismissed in 2023; that matter is not in the tracked case list above.