Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Opticon Inc.
closed- Docket:
- 1:22-cv-01561
- Court:
- D. Del.
Patents:8537242
Cedar Lane sued Opticon Inc. in D. Del. on the '242. Closed.
Defendant
Opticon Inc.
1 case as defendant.
- Cases
- 1
- Active
- 0
- 1 closed
- Filed
- —
- Top venue
- D Del
- 1 case
Company profile
Opticon, Inc. is the U.S. operating subsidiary of the Opticon group and the North American sales/service arm of OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD. (Tokyo Stock Exchange Standard Market: 6664), a Japanese auto-identification and data capture (AIDC) manufacturer founded in Japan in 1976 by Masami Tawara. Opticon, Inc. was incorporated in New York in March 1984 and is now headquartered in Renton, Washington. It sits in the group under Opticon Sensors Europe B.V. (Netherlands), alongside Opticon subsidiaries in France, the UK, Germany, Italy, China and elsewhere. The parent's corporate disclosure lists consolidated headcount in the low hundreds (approximately 164 employees group-wide), so Opticon, Inc. is best described as a modest regional subsidiary rather than a large standalone enterprise. No separate U.S. revenue figures are publicly disclosed.
Products/operations: 1D laser and CCD and 2D CMOS imager scan engines and OEM modules, handheld and companion barcode scanners, rugged handheld computers/mobile terminals, and electronic shelf labels — sold into retail, healthcare, logistics, warehousing, manufacturing and field-service applications.
Ownership: In November 2025, Acer Inc. (TWSE: 2353) and Esquarre Vision Limited announced plans to invest roughly JPY 1.59bn (~38%) and JPY 819m (~20%) respectively in Optoelectronics, with closing expected in early 2026 and Opticon becoming the Acer Group's 16th listed subsidiary. I could not confirm completion of that transaction from available sources.
Litigation posture: Purely a defendant — 2 tracked cases, 0 as plaintiff. This is an operating company being sued, not an NPE and not a two-way litigant. The first, Symbol Technologies, Inc. v. Opticon, Inc. (S.D.N.Y., filed Nov. 14, 1986), was a competitor suit over hand-held laser barcode scanner patents; the district court found infringement and upheld the patents, and the Federal Circuit affirmed (935 F.2d 1569, No. 90-1409, 1991). The second, Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Opticon Inc. (D. Del., 1:22-cv-01627, filed Dec. 23, 2022), is a suit by Cedar Lane, a Canadian entity widely characterized as an NPE reported to hold patents originating with Intellectual Ventures; Opticon moved to dismiss and filed counterclaims. Neither case sits in the Eastern District of Texas.
Sources: opticon.com; opto.co.jp corporate outline; Acer press release (Nov. 28, 2025); Justia/CourtListener, 935 F.2d 1569; Docket Alarm/Patexia, 1:22-cv-01627; KIPO NPE report.