I'll research this entity. Note the case data lists "Shaowei Pan" as a defendant in Motorola, Inc. v. Lemko Corporation et al., which suggests an individual rather than a company — let me verify.
Subject note: The tracked entry "Shaowei Pan" is an individual, not a corporation. Dr. Shaowei Pan is a U.S. telecommunications engineer and executive, co-founder of Lemko Corporation ("Lemko"), where he has served as Chief Technology Officer and, in recent filings, as president/director. Lemko is a private, Illinois-incorporated company headquartered in Schaumburg, IL. Sources differ on founding year: litigation coverage cites an Illinois formation date of August 2, 2002, while Lemko's own press materials say 2004. Size estimates are third-party and unverified — PitchBook lists ~25 employees and roughly $14M raised (formerly VC-backed); Kona Equity estimates ~20 employees and ~$5.2M annual revenue.
Background and operations: Pan joined Motorola in August 1994 as a staff engineer, rising to Director of Advanced Technology and Development by about September 2000. He left Motorola in late March 2004 and joined Lemko, whose Distributed Mobile Architecture (DMA) platform virtualizes 4G/5G core network functions at the network edge. Lemko markets private 4G/5G networks, rural/remote broadband systems, and mission-critical/public-safety deployments, and cites the Node1 4G core product; it reports 50+ patents, 28 in mobile edge computing (MEC) and two in autonomous driving. Pan is the sole named inventor on Lemko's asserted patents.
Litigation posture: Pan appears in the database only as a defendant (0 plaintiff, 1 defendant case) — consistent with an individual, not an NPE. That sole case is Motorola, Inc. v. Lemko Corporation et al., No. 08-cv-05427 (N.D. Ill.), where Motorola alleged trade-secret misappropriation, breach of invention-assignment agreements, and Computer Fraud and Abuse Act violations, and sought a declaration that it owned eight Lemko patents and ten applications. Pan was one of fifteen defendants; the court denied summary judgment for Pan, Lemko, and co-founder Nicholas Labun in a January 2012 opinion. The venue was Motorola's home district, not a plaintiff-friendly patent forum.
External context: Lemko itself has been an active patent plaintiff — suing Microsoft/Affirmed Networks (N.D. Tex., Feb. 2022; a second suit in June 2026) and AT&T (E.D. Tex., Mar. 2025) over MEC technology. Pan submitted a declaration in Microsoft v. Lemko, IPR2023-00529. These are Lemko's suits, not Pan's individually.