Defendant

Synectics PLC

1 case as defendant.

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Company profile

Synectics plc (AIM: SNX; commonly "Synectics") is a UK-based security and surveillance technology company headquartered at Synectics House, Sheffield, England. Incorporated in 1983 and listed on the London Stock Exchange's AIM since 1992, it is a public company with roughly 300 employees. For the fiscal year ended 30 November 2025 it reported revenue of about £68.1m and a market capitalization in the £31–33m range (FT/Markit, StockAnalysis; figures vary by data source and date).

Operations. Synectics designs and supplies advanced security and surveillance systems for markets where surveillance is operationally critical: gaming/casinos, oil and gas, public space, transportation and infrastructure. It reports two segments — Systems, which develops, integrates and delivers electronic surveillance solutions built around its own hardware and software and sells globally; and Security, which designs, delivers and maintains end-to-end systems for high-security and public-space customers, principally in the UK. Its stated technology programs include the fourth-generation Synergy software platform and the COEX camera-station range.

Litigation posture. The case data show Synectics as a defendant only (0 plaintiff, 1 defendant) — consistent with an operating company being targeted rather than an active litigant. The sole tracked matter is Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Synectics plc, No. 6:22-cv-00961, filed 15 September 2022 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas (Waco Division, Judge Alan D. Albright), a plaintiff-friendly patent venue. Cedar Lane Technologies is a Canadian entity widely characterized as a non-practicing entity that acquired patents originating from Intellectual Ventures; IPWatchdog's coverage listed this suit alongside Cedar Lane's broader "IV selloff" campaign. The asserted patents (including US 6,972,790; 6,473,527; and 8,537,242) relate to image and video data processing — plausible overlaps with camera/surveillance products, though this profile makes no assessment of the claims' merits. Docket activity in 2023 concerned foreign service of process on the UK defendant and a related order to show cause.