Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. NEXCOM International Co., Ltd.
- Docket:
- 6:22-cv-00946
- Court:
- W.D. Tex.
Cedar Lane asserted the '242 against NEXCOM International Co., Ltd. in W.D. Tex.
Defendant
1 case as defendant.
NEXCOM International Co., Ltd. (commonly "NEXCOM"; Chinese name 新漢電腦) is a Taiwan-based industrial-computing manufacturer founded in 1992 and headquartered in the Zhonghe District of New Taipei City. It is publicly listed on the Taipei Exchange under ticker 8234 (TW0008234006), with a market capitalization recently in the NT$9–16 billion range and roughly 1,000 employees. Fiscal 2025 revenue was about NT$5.7 billion; trailing-twelve-month revenue through mid-2026 was roughly NT$5.4 billion, with the company swinging to small operating losses in recent periods. It operates subsidiaries in the US, UK, China, Italy and Japan.
Products and operations. NEXCOM is an operating company that designs and manufactures industrial and embedded computing hardware and related software. Its business is organized into six units: IoT Automation Solutions (industrial automation, robot control, EtherCAT motion, industrial IoT gateways); Intelligent Video Surveillance (IP/ANPR cameras, NVR platforms); Intelligent Platform @ Smart City (digital signage, kiosks, edge AI, ODM services); Mobile Computing Solutions (edge-AI and vehicle telematics computers, railway computers, in-vehicle networking); Medical & Healthcare Informatics (medical IT systems); and Network and Communication Solutions (cyber-security appliances, HPC, telecom, storage, SDN/NFV). It also sells single-board computers and industrial peripherals and reports a large in-house R&D staff.
Litigation posture. NEXCOM is an operating company defendant, not an asserter. The tracked data show 0 cases as plaintiff and 1 as defendant, consistent with a hardware vendor being targeted rather than a licensor filing suit.
Notable case. The single tracked matter is Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. NEXCOM International Co., Ltd., No. 6:22-cv-00946, filed in the Western District of Texas in September 2022 and assigned to Judge Alan D. Albright. Cedar Lane — a Canadian NPE incorporated in 2019 that asserts patents acquired from Intellectual Ventures and was among the most prolific filers of 2022 — alleged infringement of US 6,972,790 ("Host interface for imaging arrays"), an acquired patent in the Stanford NPE database and a common Cedar Lane assertion in imaging-camera suits. Cedar Lane voluntarily dismissed the case in November 2022.