SBCG, Inc. — company profile
Company overview. SBCG, Inc. is a U.S. entity with a very thin public record. It is identified in SiRF Technology's SEC filings (10-K and proxy statements) and in the underlying district-court docket only as "the United States distributor" of Global Locate, Inc., a San Jose, California–based GPS/assisted-GPS (A-GPS) chip and software developer. Headquarters, founding year, ownership status, employee count and revenue could not be independently verified from public sources; I found no corporate website, registry entry or press coverage establishing those facts, and I have not invented any. Based on the docket it appears to have been a privately held distribution/sales affiliate tied to Global Locate rather than an independent public company.
Products / services / operations. On the available evidence SBCG operated as a distribution channel for Global Locate's GPS chipset and software products in the United States, rather than as a manufacturer. Global Locate's technology (later Broadcom's) covered A-GPS signal-correlation, ephemeris distribution and satellite-tracking software used in GPS receivers. I could not verify any SBCG-branded product line; its function appears to have been reselling/importing Global Locate products.
Patent-litigation posture. SBCG appears in our database only as a defendant in two tracked (duplicate) entries — zero as plaintiff. That profile is consistent with a distributor being pulled into a supplier's patent dispute, not with a non-practicing entity asserting patents. There is no evidence of SBCG filing affirmative patent suits of its own.
Notable cases / context. SiRF Technology, Inc. v. Global Locate, Inc. et al. (C.D. Cal., Santa Ana Division, No. 8:06-cv-01216), filed December 15, 2006. SiRF sued Global Locate and SBCG; Global Locate and SBCG counterclaimed against SiRF. The action was stayed in 2007 pending the parallel ITC investigations (337-TA-596 and 337-TA-602, the Broadcom/Global Locate GPS cases), and all claims by and against SiRF and Global Locate/SBCG were dismissed without prejudice in January 2011. Broadcom acquired Global Locate in July 2007 and was added as a complainant in the ITC matter, which found infringement by SiRF's GPS chips and issued limited exclusion and cease-and-desist orders in January 2009. SBCG's litigation exposure is therefore best understood as downstream/distribution-related fallout from the Global Locate–SiRF GPS chip dispute.