Defendant

LG Electronics MobileComm U.S.A., Inc.

2 cases as defendant.

Cases
2
Active
1
1 closed
Filed
2007–2009
Top venue
C.D. Illinois Peoria
1 case

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LG Electronics MobileComm U.S.A., Inc. ("LG MobileComm USA" / "LG Mobile Phones") was the U.S. mobile-handset sales, marketing, and engineering arm of South Korea's LG Electronics. It was a California corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of LG Electronics, Inc. (per complaints citing its registration), originally headquartered at 10101 Old Grove Road, San Diego, CA, and later listed at 1000 Sylvan Avenue, Englewood Cliffs, NJ — the LG Electronics USA headquarters address. LG Electronics, Inc. is publicly traded on the Korea Exchange (066570), controlled by LG Corporation (~34% stake), with FY2024 consolidated revenue of roughly KRW 87.7 trillion (~US$60–63B) and about 35,000 employees group-wide. I could not verify the MobileComm USA entity's current corporate status; LG Electronics announced in April 2021 that it was exiting the mobile phone business entirely.

Operations. The entity sold and marketed LG-branded mobile phones in the United States across CDMA, EVDO, and later LTE handsets for carriers including Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and U.S. Cellular, and handled related R&D, engineering, and FCC equipment certification (e.g., filings under LG's ZNL FCC ID prefix). This was an operating company, not a patent-assertion vehicle. LG has since pivoted to home appliances/air solutions, home entertainment (OLED TVs, webOS), vehicle components, and B2B displays.

Litigation posture. The tracked data shows 1 case, 0 as plaintiff, 1 as defendant — the classic profile of a large operating company being targeted, not an NPE. The sole tracked matter is Delaware Display Group LLC et al. v. LG Electronics, Inc. et al., No. 1:15-cv-01221 (D. Del., filed Dec. 30, 2015; closed April 2017), in which MobileComm USA was one of five LG-affiliated defendants alongside LG Electronics, Inc., LG Electronics U.S.A., LG Display Co., and LG Display America. Venue was the District of Delaware, not the Eastern District of Texas.

Context. Both plaintiffs — Delaware Display Group LLC and Innovative Display Technologies LLC — are Acacia Research subsidiaries (per RPX reporting) asserting LCD backlight/light-emitting-panel patents (7,384,177; 7,404,660; 7,434,973). LG responded with inter partes review petitions (e.g., IPR2015-00506), and the PTAB found the asserted '973 claims unpatentable in 2016.

Triune Star, Inc. v. LG Electronics MobileComm U.S.A., Inc. et al.

appeal filed; disposition not retrieved
Docket:
09-1371
Filed:
2009-05-18
Patents:6122521

Triune Star, Inc. appealed from the district court's summary judgment of non-infringement and Rule 11 fee award involving U.S. Patent No. 6,122,521. The Federal Circuit docket reflects June 26, 2009 and August 24, 2009 entries listed under opinions, but the disposition text was not retrieved.

Triune Star, Inc. v. The Walt Disney Company et al.

summary judgment of non-infringement and Rule 11 sanctions; on appeal
Docket:
1:07-cv-01256
Filed:
2007-09-28
Patents:6122521

Triune Star, Inc. sued mobile phone and electronics defendants for infringement of U.S. Patent No. 6,122,521. The Walt Disney Company was dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction. The district court later granted the remaining defendants summary judgment of non-infringement and awarded Rule 11 sanctions against Triune Star and its counsel.