Company overview. Shenzhen TCL New Technology Co., Ltd. (深圳TCL新技术有限公司) is a Chinese limited liability company headquartered at International E-City, Nanshan District, Shenzhen. Established April 6, 1999 (successor to TTK Household Appliances, founded 1981), it is part of the TCL group: shareholders are TCL Holdings (BVI) Ltd. (80%) and TCL King Electrical Appliances (Huizhou) Co. (20%), with Li Dongsheng as ultimate controller. Following TCL's 2019 restructuring, it sits under TCL Industries Holdings (TCL Industrial Holdings), the group's smart-device arm (TCL Electronics Holdings Ltd. is the Hong Kong-listed affiliate). Chinese business registries report roughly 1,500–1,600 employees (2024) and registered capital of HK$10 million; it is a private, unlisted subsidiary.
Products / operations. This is an operating entity, not a shell. Its registered scope covers TV software development, smart-electronics solution design, smart-home and smart-community system operation and technical services, and sales of smart consumer electronics. It operates the "TCL之家" (TCL Home) e-commerce app launched in 2021, an S2B2C distribution platform for TCL appliances, and historically produced security-monitoring gear, DVD home-theater systems, and set-top boxes.
Patent-litigation posture. Operating-company defendant: the single tracked case lists it 0 times as plaintiff and 1 time as defendant. It was sued alongside ~13 other TCL manufacturing, trading, and holding affiliates in VideoLabs, Inc. v. TCL Technology Group Corporation et al. (2:25-cv-00161), filed February 10, 2025, in the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division (Judge Gilstrap) — a venue favored by patent plaintiffs. The case closed in November 2025.
Notable context. Plaintiff VideoLabs is a patent assertion entity (per Unified Patents) whose complaint describes a video-patent portfolio aggregated from Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Alcatel-Lucent, Siemens, Swisscom, 3Com, Panasonic, LG, and Nokia. The asserted patents covered H.264/HEVC video coding, portable touchscreen devices, and PVR/video-server technology, targeting TCL Smart TVs, projectors, phones, tablets, and the TCLtv+ service. In a related external matter, Shenzhen TCL New Technology was named a respondent in an August 2025 USITC Section 337 investigation concerning certain smart TVs.