TP-Link Corporation Ltd. (often referred to as TP-Link) is a global provider of networking devices and smart home products, initially founded in 1996 in Shenzhen, China. As of 2024, the company has completed a corporate restructuring, establishing TP-Link Systems Inc. in Irvine, California, as its global headquarters and parent company, with founder and CEO Jeffrey Chao and his wife Hillary as sole owners, explicitly separating from its mainland China operations. TP-Link serves customers in over 170 countries and regions. The company employed over 26,000 people in 2019 and generated an estimated annual revenue of $2.3 billion.
TP-Link manufactures a wide range of products including high-speed cable modems, ADSL, routers, switches, range extenders, IP cameras, power-line adapters, wireless adapters, and smart home devices under brands like Deco, Tapo, Omada, VIGI, Aginet, Kasa Smart, and Mercusys. The company is recognized as a leading provider of Wi-Fi devices, having held the top spot in worldwide WLAN shipments for many consecutive years. They also provide solutions for business networking and surveillance.
Based on the provided data, TP-Link Corporation Ltd. has a patent litigation posture typical of an operating company defending against assertion suits. The company has been a defendant in one tracked case and has no record as a plaintiff.
The sole tracked case is Stingray IP Solutions LLC v. TP-Link Corporation Ltd. et al., filed on February 8, 2021, in the California Central District Court. Stingray IP Solutions LLC is identified as a Non-Practicing Entity (NPE) or Patent Assertion Entity, which has filed multiple patent infringement lawsuits, often in the Eastern District of Texas. The case against TP-Link was originally filed in the Eastern District of Texas but was transferred to the Central District of California.