Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Company overview. Metro (Suzhou) Technologies Co., Ltd. (Chinese: 码捷（苏州）科技有限公司) is a Chinese manufacturing and R&D subsidiary of Honeywell International Inc. It was founded on 1 February 1999 in Suzhou Industrial Park, Jiangsu Province, as a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S.-based Metrologic Instruments, Inc. (est. 1968, Blackwood, New Jersey). Metrologic was acquired by Francisco Partners in 2006 and by Honeywell in July 2008; the Suzhou entity now sits within Honeywell's sensing/productivity-solutions business (formerly Honeywell Scanning & Mobility). Chinese registry data shows a foreign-sole-proprietorship owned by Metrologic Asia (Pte) Ltd, registered capital of about US$6 million, and roughly 972 insured employees. No reliable public revenue figure for the subsidiary was found.
Products / operations. Business-registration and ISO 45001 records list R&D and production of bar-code scanners, bar-code/label printers, mobile data terminals, and radio-navigation and global-tracking devices. The Suzhou site operates as a Honeywell global manufacturing and R&D center for automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) products, including scan engines and optical modules. It is an operating manufacturer, not a shell or licensing vehicle.
Patent-litigation posture. Its single tracked appearance is as a defendant (0 as plaintiff), which is the profile of an operating company defending an infringement action rather than a non-practicing entity. The matter is a Section 337 investigation at the U.S. International Trade Commission — not a district-court suit in a venue such as the Eastern District of Texas.
Notable case. Symbol Technologies, Inc. v. Metro (Suzhou) Technologies Co., Ltd. et al., USITC Inv. No. 337-TA-551, instituted 26 October 2005. Symbol (Holtsville, NY) alleged infringement of five patents (U.S. 5,457,308, 5,545,889, 6,220,514, 5,262,627, 5,917,173) covering laser bar-code scanners and scan engines. Metro (Suzhou) was named alongside affiliate Metrologic Instruments. The ALJ found a Section 337 violation in January 2007 and imposed monetary sanctions for discovery abuses; the Commission affirmed in June 2007 and issued a limited exclusion order and cease-and-desist order. The dispute reflects the scanner/scan-engine technology overlap between these two AIDC competitors.
Section 337 investigation before the ITC brought by Symbol against Metro (Suzhou) Technologies and Metrologic Instruments. An initial determination on violation issued January 29, 2007; the narrative could not confirm whether the '297 patent was among the asserted patents.