Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Kum Oh Electronics Co., Ltd. (Korean: 주식회사 금오전자; trades as "Kum Oh Electronics," website kumohec.co.kr) is a South Korean manufacturer founded on June 11, 1998, headquartered at 35 Gilju-ro 444beon-gil, Wonmi-gu, Bucheon-si, Gyeonggi-do. It is an unlisted small/medium enterprise (비상장 중소기업) — no parent company or publicly traded ticker has been identified. CEO is Kim Ki-sang. Korean corporate-data aggregator THE VC lists 119 employees as of June 2026 (national pension filings show ~118), while recruitment listings cite ~128 staff; reported revenue was roughly KRW 61.5 billion in FY2024 and KRW 65.5 billion in FY2023 (Incruit corporate profile), i.e. a low-to-mid tens of millions of USD scale. These figures come from third-party Korean business databases rather than audited filings available in English.
Products / operations. Kum Oh is an operating company, not an NPE. It designs and manufactures electronic article surveillance and display-security hardware sold B2B to retailers and display-fixture integrators: anti-theft display stands and grips for smartphones and tablets, sensor-based alarm modules and anti-theft connectors that detect device removal, cable retraction/recoiler assemblies for display tables, camera anti-theft devices, plus related accessories such as wireless chargers, headphone charging stands and stylus holders. USPTO/FCC records list US and Korean patents in the company's name covering these mechanisms (e.g., U.S. 9,659,471 anti-theft apparatus for mobile device; U.S. 10,390,121 headphone charging stand; D798,875 connector). The company states it exports to customers in roughly 120 countries.
Patent-litigation posture. Purely defensive. In the tracked data Kum Oh appears in exactly one case and only as a defendant (0 as plaintiff), consistent with an operating company attacked over its products rather than an assertor. The suit, InVue Security Products Inc. v. Kum Oh Electronics Co., Ltd. (3:13-cv-00465, W.D.N.C., filed Aug. 14, 2013), was a direct competitor dispute — InVue, a Charlotte, N.C.-based retail security supplier, accused Kum Oh's M-1000/M-5000 series alarm systems of infringing U.S. 7,737,843 ("Programmable Alarm Module and System for Protecting Merchandise"). Venue was the plaintiff's home district, not a notably plaintiff-friendly patent venue such as E.D. Tex.
Case context. Kum Oh petitioned for inter partes review of the '843 patent (IPR2014-00457, filed Feb. 25, 2014); the district court denied Kum Oh's motion to stay pending IPR on April 3, 2014, and the case terminated July 25, 2014. No subsequent US litigation involving the company appears in the tracked data.
InVue Security Products Inc. sued Kum Oh Electronics Co., Ltd. in the Western District of North Carolina on August 14, 2013, involving retail security patents. The court denied a stay pending IPR in April 2014. The narrative does not identify specific patent numbers asserted, and this case does not assert US 10,738,508.