NEC Corporation (日本電気株式会社; TYO: 6701) is a Japanese information and communications technology group founded on July 17, 1899, headquartered at 7-1, Shiba 5-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo. It is publicly listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime market and is not a subsidiary of another group. Per NEC's own corporate profile, consolidated revenue was ¥3.5827 trillion in FY2025, with 101,800 consolidated employees (21,934 non-consolidated) as of March 31, 2026; it reports 249 consolidated subsidiaries.
NEC operates in two core segments plus emerging businesses: IT services (system integration, consulting, outsourcing/cloud, software, and its "BluStellar" value-creation model, including the "cotomi" generative-AI offering and security products) and social infrastructure (network and communications equipment, submarine cable systems, aerospace/defense, and public-safety systems). Its best-known technology franchises are biometric authentication — face, iris, fingerprint, palmprint and voice recognition — along with AI/video analytics, cybersecurity, and digital government/identity platforms. It also runs healthcare and life-sciences ventures. This is unambiguously an operating company, not a patent-holding shell.
Litigation posture: NEC appears in this database exclusively as a defendant in all three tracked cases (0 as plaintiff). That pattern — multiple defensive suits, no offensive assertions — is consistent with a large operating company being targeted by patent holders rather than an entity monetizing a portfolio. All three matters were filed in the plaintiff-friendly Eastern District of Texas (Marshall, Tyler, and the district generally).
Notable tracked cases: VirnetX Inc. v. Aastra et al. (E.D. Tex., Tyler Division, filed 2010-08-11) — VirnetX and Technology Properties Ltd. / TPL Group v. Fujitsu et al. are separate actions naming NEC among numerous defendants. TPL Group and VirnetX are widely characterized as non-practicing entities/patent assertion vehicles. The 2010 filing date and the multi-defendant "et al." captions place these matters in the earlier wave of E.D. Tex. NPE campaigns against communications and electronics vendors. The database does not record current case status or outcomes; no merits assessment is implied.