Defendant
1 case as defendant.
I'll research Oki Data Corp. to verify the profile details.
Overview. Oki Data Corporation ("OKI Data"; ODC) was a Japanese printer manufacturer established on October 1, 1994, when Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. spun off its printer and facsimile business. Headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo, it was a wholly owned subsidiary of Tokyo-listed Oki Electric Industry (TSE: 6703), the 1881-founded telecom, infrastructure and mechatronics group. Reported standalone headcount was 1,053 (4,216 group-wide) with group revenue of ¥107.8 billion for the fiscal year ended March 2019. Oki Data Corporation ceased to exist as a separate legal entity on April 1, 2021, when it was absorbed by merger into Oki Electric Industry; the printing business continues within OKI under the OKI brand.
Products / operations. An operating manufacturer, not a patent-holding shell. Its core lines were LED electrophotographic printers and multifunction peripherals (a technology OKI pioneered in 1981), serial impact dot-matrix (SIDM) printers, thermal label and POS printers, professional/graphic-arts digital color printers, plus consumables, options and managed print services. It sold through regional subsidiaries including Oki Data Americas (Irving, Texas), OKI Europe and OKI Data Australia/NZ. Oki Data Americas stopped selling OKI-branded hardware in the Americas on March 31, 2021, with hardware continuing under distributor branding (IntoPrint).
Litigation posture. Oki Data appears in the tracked data as a defendant only (0 plaintiff cases, 1 defendant case) — the classic profile of an operating company targeted by an assertion entity rather than a litigant enforcing its own portfolio. Its sole tracked matter is IP Innovation L.L.C. v. Oki Data Corp., No. 1:02-cv-06231, in the Northern District of Illinois. The venue is the plaintiff's home turf (Chicago-based Niro Scavone counsel), not a plaintiff-favorable district like the Eastern District of Texas.
Case context. The 2002 suit was brought by IP Innovation LLC and co-plaintiff Technology Licensing Corporation. IP Innovation is a well-documented shell subsidiary of Acacia Research Corporation (now Acacia Technologies/CAT), a patent-acquisition and licensing firm; Technology Licensing Corp. was a holding entity associated with patent agent J. Carl Cooper. The Stanford NPE Litigation Database classifies the case under "acquired patents." Oki Data was voluntarily dismissed from the case in November 2002.
Corroborated by the Stanford NPE Litigation Database as a case involving US 5,424,780. Filed in 2002 in N.D. Ill.; additional co-plaintiffs indicated by 'et al.' are not named in the narrative, and no outcome is established.