Moxa Inc.

Moxa Inc. (四零四科技; commonly "Moxa") is a Taiwanese industrial networking and communications equipment maker founded in 1987. Its corporate headquarters is in New Taipei City, Taiwan, with a US sales/marketing base in Brea, California and regional offices including Munich, Shanghai, and Tokyo. The company is privately held and employee-owned rather than listed on a public exchange; it does not disclose revenue publicly. Headcount is approximately 1,200–1,900 depending on source and year (company figures cited ~1,200 in 2020; later third-party estimates range higher).

Products and operations. Moxa designs and manufactures industrial-grade networking, computing, and automation hardware. Major lines include industrial Ethernet switches, serial-to-Ethernet device servers and converters, industrial wireless/Wi-Fi access points and cellular gateways, industrial edge computers, and network infrastructure equipment (including PoE and rack-level gear). Its products serve factory automation, semiconductor manufacturing, smart rail/transportation, smart grid and energy, oil and gas, marine, and mining. Moxa also markets industrial cybersecurity compliance and services around the IEC 62443 standard.

Patent-litigation posture. Moxa is an operating company, not a patent assertion entity. In the tracked data it appears in 2 cases, all as a defendant and none as a plaintiff — consistent with a product company being targeted rather than asserting patents. Both suits were filed by Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, a venue known for patent-plaintiff-friendly procedures and long associated with Judge Alan Albright's Waco docket.

Notable cases and context. The tracked matters are Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Moxa Inc. (W.D. Tex.), a pair of infringement complaints. Cedar Lane is a Canadian-based non-practicing entity that has filed hundreds of patent suits since 2019, frequently in the Western District of Texas and Delaware, asserting patents acquired in part from Intellectual Ventures-lineage portfolios; Unified Patents, RPX, and Stanford's NPE Litigation Database identify it as an NPE. The Moxa assertions fall within Cedar Lane's image/video data-processing technology cluster, which has also targeted camera, imaging, and industrial-computing vendors.