Ricoh USA

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Company overview. Ricoh USA, Inc. (commonly "Ricoh USA"; also historically branded Ricoh Americas) is the U.S. operating arm of Ricoh Company, Ltd., a Japanese imaging and electronics multinational. Ricoh USA is headquartered in Exton/Malvern, Pennsylvania (300 Eagleview Blvd, Exton, PA), and was founded in 1962. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Tokyo-based Ricoh Company, Ltd. (TSE: 6501; U.S. OTC: RICOY), not a separately traded company. Public estimates put Ricoh USA at roughly 15,000–21,000 U.S. employees; parent Ricoh Company reports about 81,000–105,000 employees globally and group revenue in the ~$15–23 billion range depending on year and currency conversion. These subsidiary-level figures come from third-party data aggregators and should be treated as approximate.

Products / services / operations. Ricoh USA is an operating company, not a shell. It sells and services multifunction printers, copiers, and production/commercial printing systems; document management and "global scan" workflow software; managed print services; IT services and managed workplace technology; and industrial/imaging systems. Its customer base spans large enterprises, healthcare providers, and government agencies. Ricoh USA was the surviving entity in a 2016 merger that consolidated Ricoh Americas Corporation and Ricoh Americas Financial Services.

Patent-litigation posture. Based on the tracked data, Ricoh USA appears exclusively as a defendant (0 plaintiff cases, 1 defendant case) — the classic profile of an operating company being targeted rather than an asserter. Also consistent with that, its parent Ricoh Company maintains a substantial patent portfolio, but Ricoh USA is not a tracked patent plaintiff.

Notable cases. The single tracked matter is Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Ricoh USA, Inc., No. 6:22-cv-01119 (W.D. Tex., filed Oct. 26, 2022). Cedar Lane is characterized as a non-practicing entity in the Stanford NPE Litigation Database, asserting acquired patents (originally linked to Intellectual Ventures) covering image/data processing — e.g., U.S. Patent Nos. 6,972,790 and 6,473,527. The case was filed in the Waco Division of the Western District of Texas, before Judge Alan Albright, a notably plaintiff-friendly patent venue. Ricoh USA retained outside counsel and obtained an extension to respond; no further outcome is reflected in the tracked data.