Defendant
3 cases as defendant.
PCT International, Inc. — commonly "PCT" — is a privately held U.S. manufacturer of broadband last-mile connectivity hardware. Founded in 1997 by Steve Youtsey and based in the Phoenix, Arizona area (Mesa/Tempe), it is owned alongside a holding company, Andes Industries, Inc., and sells under the PCT International and PCT brands (pctinternational.com). Size figures vary widely by source: ThomasNet lists a self-reported $100–249.9M revenue band and 1,000+ employees, while Tracxn reported roughly 367 employees as of 2026 — treat these as rough estimates, as PCT is private and does not publish audited financials.
Products and operations. PCT designs and manufactures coaxial cable, coaxial and hardline connectors, splitters, taps, filters, amplifiers, RFoG/fiber nodes, HFC platform equipment, self-install kits, and installation tools for cable/broadband network operators. It operates wholly owned factories and engineering sites in Mesa, Arizona and internationally (including Tra Vinh, Vietnam; Yantai, China; and Belgrade, Serbia). The company states it holds roughly 170 granted/registered patents and has manufactured over a million miles of coaxial cable. It filed Chapter 11 in 2021 and emerged under a confirmed reorganization plan in November 2021, citing IP-theft costs, COVID-19, and tariff/freight pressures.
Litigation posture. The tracked data shows PCT only as a defendant (0 plaintiff, 3 defendant appearances), all in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York. Its opponent, PPC Broadband, Inc. d/b/a PPC (the John Mezzalingua Associates connector business, headquartered in East Syracuse, NY), is an operating competitor, not a non-practicing entity — so this is a competitor-versus-competitor patent dispute over coaxial connector technology, not an NPE campaign.
Notable context. The three NDNY suits are all captioned PPC Broadband, Inc. d/b/a PPC v. PCT International, Inc. (earliest tracked 2013-02-05), reflecting a long-running connector patent war. PCT has also litigated offensively outside this dataset: it won a jury verdict and rare permanent injunction against Holland Electronics (an Amphenol subsidiary) over coaxial connector patent 6,042,422, affirmed by the Federal Circuit in 2016.
PPC Broadband sued PCT International in the Northern District of New York. Google Patents/Unified Patents links the case to the US 8,485,845 family, and PCT's invalidity/non-infringement contentions cite the '845 patent among PPC's asserted continuity-connector patents. Outcome is not confirmed.
PPC Broadband sued PCT International. Defendant served preliminary and supplemental invalidity/non-infringement contentions in 2013 that addressed PPC's connector patents, including the '431 patent family. No final judgment or outcome was located.
PPC Broadband sued PCT International. The case is listed on the Google Patents page for US 8,475,205 under family litigation; the original complaint asserted US 8,366,481, and PCT's non-infringement, invalidity, and unenforceability contentions were cited in later PPC family patent IDS materials. Outcome was not confirmed.