Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Panasonic Corporation of North America (trade name Panasonic North America; formerly Matsushita Electric Corporation of America until January 2005) is the principal U.S. subsidiary of Japan's Panasonic Holdings Corporation (TYO: 6752; OTC: PCRFF/PCRFY). It is headquartered at Two Riverfront Plaza in Newark, New Jersey. The North American sales company was established in 1959; the Delaware entity dates to 1988. It is privately held within the Panasonic group rather than separately traded. Workforce figures reported by third-party databases vary widely (roughly 10,000–30,000 for North America), and I could not verify a single authoritative headcount; the global parent reported about 207,500 employees and ¥8.5 trillion in consolidated net sales for the fiscal year ended March 2024.
Operations. Panasonic North America is the group's U.S./Canada hub for branding, sales, service and R&D, spanning consumer electronics, home appliances and HVAC, and business/industrial solutions. Notable North American operations include Panasonic Energy of North America's lithium-ion battery campus in Sparks, Nevada (tied to a battery joint venture with Tesla) and Panasonic Avionics Corporation, based in Lake Forest, California, which supplies in-flight entertainment and connectivity systems. Longstanding manufacturing and support sites are spread across the U.S., Canada and Mexico. This is an operating company, not a patent-holding shell.
Litigation posture. In the tracked data, Panasonic Corp. of North America appears once, solely as a defendant (0 plaintiff-side cases). That profile is consistent with an operating company targeted by a patent assertion rather than an entity that asserts patents offensively.
Notable case. Navog LLC v. Panasonic Corporation of North America, No. 6:24-cv-00258 (W.D. Tex., Waco Division, Judge Kathleen Cardone), filed May 15, 2024. Plaintiff Navog LLC asserted U.S. Patent No. 10,593,205 ("GPS and warning system") against in-vehicle navigation/infotainment technology. Navog is characterized in Stanford's NPE Litigation Database as a non-practicing entity asserting acquired patents, and filed parallel complaints against Rand McNally, Trimble, Sygic, TomTom and Verizon. The Panasonic case was dismissed with prejudice on September 5, 2024 — 113 days after filing — under a joint Rule 41(a) stipulation, with each party bearing its own costs.