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8 cases as defendant.
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NEC Corporation (日本電気株式会社) is a Japanese multinational information and communications technology company headquartered at 7-1, Shiba 5-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo. Founded in 1899 and renamed NEC Corporation in 1983, it is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (ticker 6701) with no parent company. Per NEC's own corporate profile, the group reported consolidated revenue of ¥3.5827 trillion in FY2025 (ended March 31, 2026) and employed roughly 101,800 people on a consolidated basis.
NEC operates as a diversified ICT vendor and systems integrator rather than a pure NPE. Its main lines are IT services (system integration, consulting, cloud, outsourcing) for government, finance, healthcare and manufacturing; social infrastructure, including biometric authentication (face, iris, fingerprint), public-safety and video-surveillance systems, defense/aerospace and submarine optical cable systems; and network services, including 4G/5G core networks, base stations, Open RAN, optical transmission and Netcracker OSS/BSS software. NEC also markets AI platforms such as cotomi generative AI.
Litigation posture: NEC is predominantly an operating company on the defensive — 8 tracked cases as defendant versus 3 as plaintiff. The defense side is a mix of NPE suits and declaratory-judgment actions clustering in the Eastern District of Texas and the Eastern District of Virginia, venues favored by patent plaintiffs. Its own assertions are limited and framed as a practicing entity enforcing internally developed video/image-processing patents; the Stanford NPE Litigation Database categorizes NEC's suits as those of a "Product company."
Notable cases: In September 2024 NEC sued Anker Innovations and YI Technologies in E.D. Tex. over surveillance/imaging patents (e.g., U.S. 10,037,467; 11,210,526; 11,537,814). Anker-affiliated entities Power Mobile Life, LLC and Fantasia Trading, LLC responded in October 2024 with a declaratory-judgment non-infringement action in E.D. Va. (Judge Brinkema), transferred to E.D. Tex. (Judge Gilstrap). ReadyComm LLC, described by RPX and Stanford's database as a non-practicing entity, sued NEC in March 2025 over U.S. 9,179,011 (telephone communication systems) and voluntarily dismissed without prejudice in May 2025. NEC was also a defendant in Fiber, LLC v. NEC in the District of Colorado (2012).
ReadyComm LLC sued NEC Corporation in E.D. Tex. The case was dismissed without prejudice under FRCP 41(a)(1)(A)(i); the court accepted/acknowledged the notice, each party bears its own costs, and there was no merits ruling or fee-shifting.
Power Mobile Life and Fantasia Trading filed a declaratory judgment action against NEC in E.D. Va., including a Sixth Cause of Action for non-infringement of US 11,537,814. The case was transferred to E.D. Tex. as 2:24-cv-00881, then voluntarily dismissed; Judge Gilstrap entered an order dismissing the case on December 5, 2024.
Power Mobile Life, LLC and Fantasia Trading, LLC (d/b/a AnkerDirect) filed a declaratory judgment action against NEC Corporation seeking patent non-infringement, responsive to NEC's infringement assertions including the '526 Patent. The action was originally filed in E.D. Va., transferred to E.D. Tex., and voluntarily dismissed on December 5, 2024.
Declaratory-judgment/non-infringement-type action originally filed by Anker-affiliated entities against NEC in E.D. Va.; transferred to E.D. Tex. on Nov. 1, 2024, becoming 2:24-cv-00881.
Power Mobile Life, LLC and Fantasia Trading, LLC d/b/a AnkerDirect filed a declaratory judgment action for patent non-infringement against NEC Corporation in E.D. Va.; it was transferred to E.D. Tex. and opened as 2:24-cv-00881. The narrative identifies this as a family-level link to the patent family containing U.S. Patent No. 10,970,995, but notes the '995 patent-specific assertion was not confirmed.
Declaratory judgment action for patent non-infringement brought by Power Mobile Life, LLC et al. against NEC Corporation. The case is closed.
Declaratory-judgment action for patent non-infringement brought by Power Mobile Life, LLC et al. against NEC Corporation; the case is listed as closed.
Patent infringement action under 35 U.S.C. § 271. Listed as a related matter in IPR2013-00336 and later reported as dismissed without prejudice.