Moxa

Company overview. Moxa Inc. (Chinese name 四零四科技股份有限公司, commonly "Moxa") is a Taiwanese industrial-networking company founded in 1987 and headquartered in New Taipei City, Taiwan. It is privately held — employee-owned rather than listed on a public exchange — and Moxa describes itself as having grown out of a group of co-founders who remain its owners. Corporate data aggregators put headcount near 1,200–1,300 employees, with revenue estimates ranging roughly from US$250M to US$400M depending on source and year; Moxa does not publish audited public revenue figures. It operates through subsidiaries and branch offices across Asia, Europe, and the Americas.

Products / services. Moxa designs, manufactures, and sells industrial networking, computing, and automation hardware and software for the Industrial Internet of Things. Product lines include industrial Ethernet switches, secure routers and firewalls, cellular and wireless gateways, serial device servers and media converters, protocol gateways, industrial edge computers and controllers, and network management/security software. Its main verticals are smart manufacturing, rail and transportation, power and smart grid, oil and gas, marine, and mining. In 2018 it formed the industrial-cybersecurity joint venture TXOne Networks with Trend Micro.

Patent-litigation posture. Moxa is an operating company, not a patent asserter. The tracked data show one case, with Moxa as defendant and zero as plaintiff — consistent with a product company being targeted rather than asserting patents. That single suit, Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Moxa Inc., was brought by Cedar Lane, a Canadian entity characterized in the Stanford NPE Litigation Database and by the Korean IP office (KIPO) as a non-practicing entity that acquired patents — including assets originating with Intellectual Ventures — and filed hundreds of suits, overwhelmingly in the Western District of Texas before Judge Alan Albright.

Notable case context. Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Moxa Inc., No. 6:22-cv-00778 (W.D. Tex.), was filed July 13, 2022, asserting image-data-processing patents (e.g., US 6,972,790). Cedar Lane voluntarily dismissed the case without prejudice on September 26, 2022, and the court granted dismissal on March 6, 2023. This is Moxa's only tracked US patent-litigation appearance.