Defendant

Mouser Electronics, Inc.

2 cases as defendant.

Cases
2
Active
0
2 closed
Filed
2022
Top venue
D. Delaware Judge
1 case

Company profile

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Mouser Electronics, Inc. (often "Mouser") is an authorized global distributor of semiconductors and electronic components headquartered at 1000 N. Main Street, Mansfield, Texas. Founded in 1964 in El Cajon, California by Jerry Mouser as Western Components, it moved to Texas in 1986. Mouser is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fort Worth–based TTI, Inc., which Berkshire Hathaway acquired in 2007; it is therefore a privately held operating subsidiary, not a standalone public company. Company press materials describe roughly 4,000 employees and 28 support locations worldwide in a "multi-billion-dollar" business; third-party trackers put headcount nearer 2,500–2,800 and revenue in the $2.7–4B range, so treat those figures as estimates only.

Mouser does not manufacture. It is a high-service, catalog-style distributor focused on new product introduction (NPI), supplying design engineers and buyers with semiconductors, interconnects, passives, electromechanical components, sensors, LED/lighting components and industrial-automation products. Its catalog lists more than 6.8 million products from over 1,200 manufacturer brands, served from a ~93,000 m² automated distribution center on a 100-acre Mansfield campus, shipping to customers in 223 countries. It competes with Avnet, Arrow, Digi-Key and Future Electronics.

Patent-litigation posture: pure defendant — 0 cases as plaintiff, 2 as defendant. This is the classic profile of an operating company targeted by a non-practicing entity rather than an active two-way litigant. Both tracked suits were filed 2022-08-23 by Daedalus Prime LLC, which Unified Patents classifies as an NPE/patent-assertion entity. Mouser's cases sit in the District of Delaware (Judge Richard G. Andrews) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (Section 337) — not the Eastern District of Texas, though Daedalus filed parallel EDTX actions against other defendants.

Notable cases: Daedalus Prime LLC v. Arrow Electronics, Inc. et al. (D. Del. 1:22-cv-01107) and Daedalus Prime LLC v. Avnet, Inc. et al. (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1332). Mouser appears as one of many downstream distributor and OEM respondents — alongside Arrow, Avnet, Digi-Key, Future, Newark, Rochester Electronics, NXP, Visteon, Mazda and Mercedes-Benz. The asserted patents (e.g., US 8,775,833) trace to Intel microprocessor power-management technology; Daedalus's Bronxville, NY address and acquired-portfolio assertions are consistent with an NPE model.

Daedalus Prime LLC v. Arrow Electronics, Inc. et al.

closed/terminated
Docket:
1:22-cv-01107
Filed:
2022-08-23
Terminated:
2023-03-01

Daedalus Prime LLC asserted six Daedalus Prime patents, including the '080 patent, against Arrow Electronics and other distributor and semiconductor entities in the District of Delaware. The case was closed/terminated on March 1, 2023.

Daedalus Prime LLC v. Avnet, Inc. et al.

terminated
Docket:
337-TA-1332
Filed:
2022-08-23
Terminated:
2023-02-27

Daedalus Prime LLC filed a Section 337 complaint alleging infringement of six Daedalus Prime patents, including the '080 patent. The Commission instituted the investigation against Avnet, Digi-Key, Mercedes-Benz, Mouser, Newark, and NXP respondents; it was terminated on February 27, 2023, after the ALJ's initial determination terminating the investigation based on withdrawal of the complaint. Several other proposed respondents were not instituted.