Lorex Technology Inc.

Lorex Technology Inc. ("Lorex") is a Canadian designer and marketer of video surveillance products. It was founded in 1991 as a privately held company by the Klein family, and its corporate headquarters is listed at 250 Royal Crest Court, Markham, Ontario, although one affiliate entity is registered in Vancouver, BC. Lorex is privately held and not publicly traded. Ownership has changed hands several times: FLIR Systems acquired Lorex around 2012–2013, sold it to Zhejiang Dahua Technology in February 2018 for roughly $29 million, and Dahua then sold the Canadian, U.S. and U.K. Lorex entities plus the Lorex trademarks to Cayman-incorporated Skywatch, Inc. (backed by Taiwanese investors) for about $72.19 million, a deal announced November 2022 and completed that December. Third-party data providers estimate headcount in the 130 range; as a former FLIR/Dahua subsidiary, the business reportedly generated about $140 million in revenue in 2017, and Dahua filings disclosed roughly RMB 482 million ($67 million) of 2022 revenue for the Canadian entity with a net loss.

Products / operations. Lorex is an operating company, not an NPE. It develops and sells do-it-yourself consumer and small-business video surveillance equipment: wired and Wi-Fi security camera systems, IP cameras, network and digital video recorders (NVRs/DVRs), video doorbells, and related accessories and cloud/mobile app services. Historical annual reports also describe distribution under the LOREX and Digimerge brands through North American retailers and distributors, plus a U.K. presence.

Patent-litigation posture. The tracked data shows one case, with Lorex named only as a defendant (0 as plaintiff), which is the classic profile of an operating company targeted by an assertion campaign rather than an active litigant. The single suit, Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Lorex Technology Inc., was filed in the Western District of Texas — a plaintiff-friendly venue (Judge Alan Albright) and the same district where Cedar Lane concentrates much of its filing activity.

Notable context. Cedar Lane Technologies is widely characterized as a non-practicing entity (NPE); Unified Patents and Stanford's NPE database identify it as such, and it has filed hundreds of infringement suits, largely asserting acquired patents in image/signal processing against camera, security and networking vendors. That focus aligns with Lorex's surveillance-camera product line. No other litigation involving Lorex appears in the tracked data, and no case outcomes or damages are documented here.