Defendant

Lenovo Holding Co.

1 case as defendant.

Cases
1
Active
0
1 closed
Filed
2020
Top venue
D. Delaware
1 case

Company profile

Company overview. "Lenovo Holding Co." in the case data corresponds to Lenovo Holding Company, Inc., a Delaware-incorporated holding subsidiary of Lenovo Group Limited (HKSE: 992; ADR: LNVGY). Lenovo Group is a public Hong Kong–listed technology group founded in 1984 as Legend, with its registered office in Quarry Bay, Hong Kong and global headquarters in Beijing and Morrisville, North Carolina; Legend Holdings owns roughly 31% (Wikipedia; company filings). Parent-level scale: FY2024/25 revenue of about US$69 billion and roughly 72,000 employees as of 31 March 2025. Lenovo Holding Company was registered in June 2007, lists its principal US address at 8001 Development Drive, Morrisville, NC, and court filings describe it as a wholly owned Lenovo Group subsidiary.

Products / operations. Lenovo Group designs, manufactures and sells personal computers and smart devices — ThinkPad, ThinkCentre, IdeaPad, Yoga, Legion, LOQ and IdeaCentre lines — plus Motorola-branded smartphones, tablets, servers, storage and AI/liquid-cooling infrastructure (Infrastructure Solutions Group) and IT services and solutions (Solutions and Services Group). It is the world's largest PC vendor by unit sales. Lenovo Holding Company itself is a corporate/holding vehicle rather than an operating business; it appears in litigation as a Lenovo Group affiliate.

Patent-litigation posture. One tracked case, as defendant (0 as plaintiff) — the profile of an operating company being sued, not a non-practicing entity. Venue is the District of Delaware, not the plaintiff-friendly Eastern District of Texas.

Notable case. Fundamental Innovation Systems International LLC v. Lenovo (US) Inc. et al., No. 1:20-cv-00551 (D. Del., filed 23 April 2020), naming Lenovo (United States) Inc., Lenovo Holding Company Inc., Lenovo Group Ltd. and Motorola Mobility LLC. The plaintiff, FISI, is a Delaware-formed NPE backed by private equity firm Centerbridge Partners that acquired USB-charging patents from BlackBerry in November 2015 and has sued Apple, Samsung, LG, Huawei, ZTE and others (RPX; IAM). On 7 April 2022 the court granted FISI summary judgment on Lenovo's licensing defense as to Lenovo's own accused products; trial was scheduled for October 2022.

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

litigated; summary-judgment orders Apr. 7, 2022; trial set Oct. 17, 2022
Docket:
1:20-cv-00551-RGA-CJB
Filed:
2020-04-23
Patents:8541983

Family-level FISI enforcement action against Lenovo and Motorola Mobility entities in the District of Delaware. The narrative reports summary-judgment orders on April 7, 2022, and a trial set for October 17, 2022; it does not confirm that 8541983 specifically was asserted.