NEC Corp.

NEC Corporation (日本電気株式会社, commonly "NEC") is a Japanese information-technology and electronics company headquartered at 7-1, Shiba 5-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo. It was founded on July 17, 1899, and is publicly listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market (ticker 6701:TYO). Per its own corporate profile, consolidated revenue for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2026 was ¥3,582.7 billion (roughly $24 billion), with about 101,800 consolidated employees. It is an independent, widely held public company, not a subsidiary.

NEC operates through two reporting segments. IT Services covers system integration and consulting, maintenance/support, outsourcing and cloud services, and system equipment and software, sold largely to Japanese government, municipal, and enterprise customers, plus overseas "digital government / digital finance" business through subsidiaries such as ABeam Consulting, Avaloq, and KMD; its principal DX brand is BluStellar. Social Infrastructure covers network infrastructure (core networks, mobile base stations, optical transmission systems, submarine/marine systems), software and services for telecom carriers, and aerospace, national-security and defense systems. NEC is therefore an operating company with real products and services, not a shell or assertion vehicle.

Patent-litigation posture. The tracked data show one case, in which NEC appears only as a defendant (0 as plaintiff). That case is a declaratory-judgment action for patent non-infringement — Power Mobile Life LLC et al. v. NEC Corporation — filed October 24, 2024 in the Eastern District of Virginia and transferred to the Eastern District of Texas on November 1, 2024. Notably, NEC is the patent owner, not the plaintiff: the filers, Power Mobile Life LLC and Fantasia Trading LLC (d/b/a AnkerDirect), are Anker/eufy-affiliated entities seeking a ruling that their smart-home surveillance products do not infringe NEC patents. Court records describe NEC as an operating company and patent owner.

Context. The patents at issue in that dispute concern video surveillance and AI-based video analysis — consistent with NEC's long-standing face-recognition and video-analytics work. NEC is a large, established corporate patent holder that appears here defensively in a single declaratory-judgment matter rather than as a serial plaintiff; no other litigation appearances are reflected in the tracked data.