Raytheon Company

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Raytheon Company — commonly "Raytheon" — was a major U.S. defense contractor founded in 1922 and headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. It was publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker RTN. Reported figures for the standalone company include 2019 sales of ~$29 billion with roughly 70,000 employees, and 2018 net sales of $27.1 billion. In April 2020 Raytheon Company merged with United Technologies Corporation to form Raytheon Technologies Corporation, renamed RTX Corporation in July 2023. RTX is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, trades on the NYSE as RTX, and today reports approximately 180,000 employees and 2024 sales above $80 billion. The legal entity named in the case data no longer exists independently; "Raytheon" now designates a business segment of RTX.

Operations. Raytheon was an operating defense company, not a patent-assertion entity. Its business segments were Integrated Defense Systems (air and missile defense, radars, naval combat systems), Intelligence, Information and Services (cyber, analytics, mission support), Missile Systems (Patriot, AMRAAM, Standard Missile, Tomahawk, guided-munitions work), Space and Airborne Systems (airborne/space radar, electronic warfare, communications), and a majority-owned cybersecurity unit, Forcepoint, later divested. RTX's present Raytheon segment supplies missiles, sensors, air-defense radars (Patriot, LTAMDS) and related software.

Litigation posture. The tracked data show a two-way but predominantly offensive litigant: three cases as plaintiff and two as defendant. Raytheon asserted its own patents rather than being targeted by NPEs. Its two affirmative suits were filed March 6, 2015 in the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division — a historically plaintiff-friendly venue — against Samsung and Sony entities. Those suits, plus the consolidated Sony action, concerned semiconductor packaging/fabrication technology (notably U.S. Patent No. 5,591,678).

Notable cases. Samsung and Sony responded with inter partes reviews at the PTAB (the 2016 Samsung and 2015 Sony proceedings in the data), which invalidated the asserted claims; Raytheon's appeals reached the Federal Circuit (Raytheon Company v. Sony Corporation, 2017, and the 2018 nonprecedential decision in Case 17-1554). The Samsung action was stayed pending the IPRs and dismissed in June 2018.

Sources: RTX investor filings and press releases, Raytheon company backgrounder, Wikipedia, RTX/Yahoo Finance profile.