Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Ricoh USA, Inc. — commonly "Ricoh USA" — is the principal U.S. operating subsidiary of Ricoh Company, Ltd., the Tokyo-based imaging and electronics group listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TYO: 7752). Ricoh USA is headquartered in Malvern/Exton, Pennsylvania (incorporated in Delaware), and traces its U.S. presence to 1962; the current legal entity is the former IKON Office Solutions, acquired by Ricoh Americas Corporation in 2008 and later renamed. A 2023 Ricoh investor presentation put Ricoh North America at roughly 15,000 employees with about $3.5 billion in regional revenue; parent Ricoh Company reported consolidated sales of ¥2,527.9 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025.
Operations. Ricoh USA sells and services office imaging hardware — multifunction printers, copiers, printers, scanners, plotters and fax equipment — plus production and commercial digital/inkjet printing systems. It also delivers managed print services, enterprise content management and document imaging software, IT and managed workplace services, and business process services such as document conversion, digital mail, eDiscovery and data forensics. Its communication services arm (expanded via the 2022 Cenero acquisition) provides audiovisual and collaboration integration, and the U.S. unit has partnered on 3D printing services for on-demand medical models. Ricoh's global segments include Digital Services, Digital Products, Graphic Communications and Industrial Solutions.
Litigation posture. Purely defensive: 4 tracked cases as defendant, 0 as plaintiff. All four are RAH Color Technologies LLC v. Ricoh Americas Corp. et al., filed in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in September 2015 (the records appear to reflect the same or closely related E.D. Pa. filings). RAH Color Technologies is a Virginia LLC managed by inventor Dr. Richard A. Holub that asserted a color-management patent portfolio (e.g., U.S. Patents 7,312,897; 7,729,008; 7,791,761; 8,416,444) against numerous printer, display and imaging companies including Adobe, Xerox, EFI, Heidelberg, Quad/Graphics, X-Rite and Samsung — the classic profile of a non-practicing assertion entity, though our case data itself does not establish that characterization. The venue here was E.D. Pa., not the Eastern District of Texas. No other patent suits involving this entity appear in the tracked data.
RAH Color Technologies LLC asserted the '546 patent against Ricoh Americas Corp., Ricoh Co. Ltd., and Ricoh USA Inc. The case produced a published pleading-standards opinion and was terminated/closed on or about Feb. 16, 2017.