Company overview. Nikon Imaging Japan Inc. (株式会社ニコンイメージングジャパン) is a Japanese corporation headquartered at 1‑7‑11 Nishi‑oi, Shinagawa‑ku, Tokyo, with offices in Shinjuku, Yokohama and Osaka. It was established on 5 February 1988 with capital of ¥400 million and is an unlisted, wholly owned subsidiary of Nikon Corporation (TYO: 7731), the Tokyo‑based optical and precision‑equipment group founded in 1917 (about 19,900 consolidated employees; revenue of roughly ¥677 billion in FY ended March 2026). Nikon does not disclose separate financials for Nikon Imaging Japan; a Japanese corporate database lists the entity's social‑insurance‑covered headcount in the high double digits, so it should be treated as a small sales subsidiary, not a standalone business.
Products / operations. It is a domestic sales and marketing company rather than a manufacturer. Its stated product scope is digital cameras, camera-related accessories, binoculars and other optical equipment — i.e., it handles Japan-market sales, marketing and service for Nikon's consumer imaging line, including interchangeable-lens and compact cameras, NIKKOR lenses and sport optics. Manufacturing of Nikon cameras is done elsewhere in the group (for example, by the affiliate Sendai Nikon Corporation).
Patent-litigation posture. The structured data show one tracked case and zero plaintiff filings: Nikon Imaging Japan appears solely as a defendant, named in Intellectual Ventures I LLC et al. v. Nikon Corporation et al. (D. Del., No. 1:11-cv-01025). That is the classic profile of an operating-company subsidiary being attacked by a patent-assertion entity, not an NPE or two-way litigant. The suit was filed in the District of Delaware, not a notoriously plaintiff-friendly venue such as the Eastern District of Texas.
Case context. Intellectual Ventures entities (an NPE that acquires and licenses patents, headquartered in Bellevue, Washington) filed in October 2011 against Nikon Imaging Japan, Sendai Nikon, Nikon Americas and Nikon Inc., asserting five patents covering touch screens, non-destructive image editing, image sensors and virtual reality cameras, after licensing talks failed. Nikon Imaging Japan was named in the original complaint; an amended complaint substituted Nikon Corporation. The court dismissed Sendai Nikon for lack of personal jurisdiction in 2013, and the case was terminated on 20 May 2015.