Fiber, LLC v. NEC Corporation et al.
dismissed- Docket:
- 1:12-cv-01346
- Filed:
- 2012-05-23
Patents:6430332
Patent infringement action under 35 U.S.C. § 271. Listed as a related matter in IPR2013-00336 and later reported as dismissed without prejudice.
Defendant
NEC Corporation of America
1 case as defendant.
- Cases
- 1
- Active
- 0
- 1 closed
- Filed
- 2012
- Top venue
- D. Colorado Denver
- 1 case
Company profile
Let me verify the parent company's public listing and the litigation context.
NEC Corporation of America ("NEC"), headquartered in Irving, Texas, is the wholly-owned North American subsidiary of NEC Corporation, a Japanese information-technology and social-infrastructure group founded in 1899 and listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market (ticker 6701). NEC Corporation of America was formed July 1, 2006, by consolidating NEC USA, NEC America and NEC Solutions America; NEC's US operations trace to 1963. At formation it reported more than $1 billion in revenue. Its parent reported consolidated FY2025 revenue of ¥3.58 trillion (roughly $23–25 billion) with about 101,800 employees; NEC Corporation of America has been reported in the 1,000–5,000 employee range, though figures vary by source.
NEC Corporation of America sells and integrates IT, communications and networking solutions for enterprises and government. Product areas include biometric identification (NeoFace face recognition, NeoScan fingerprint scanners), public safety and identity management, unified communications (UNIVERGE 3C), software-defined networking (ProgrammableFlow), servers and storage, optical networking, microwave radio, retail point-of-sale, and smart-city/visual display solutions. It is an operating company, not a licensor.
Litigation posture: NEC is an operating company defending against patent assertion. In the tracked data it appears in exactly one case — as a defendant, with zero plaintiff filings — consistent with a target rather than an aggressor.
The sole tracked matter is Fiber, LLC v. NEC Corporation et al., filed May 23, 2012 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado (Denver). Fiber, LLC — a Wyoming limited liability company — asserted acquired optical-switching patents (U.S. Patent Nos. 6,430,332 and 7,095,917) against NEC and other optical-equipment vendors. JDS Uniphase petitioned for inter partes review of both patents in 2013, and a related consolidated Colorado action involving co-defendants ended in a stipulated judgment of invalidity and non-infringement in 2017. Venue was Colorado rather than a plaintiff-friendly district such as the Eastern District of Texas.