Defendant
1 case as defendant.
TRENDnet, Inc. (commonly "TRENDnet") is a privately held networking-hardware brand founded in 1990 and headquartered at 20675 Manhattan Place, Torrance, California. It was co-founded by Pei Huang (President/CEO) and Peggy Huang (CFO), who remain the company's principals. It is not publicly traded and no parent company is disclosed in public sources. Third-party estimates of size vary widely and are not authoritative: Manta lists a 100–249 employee band, SecurityScorecard reports roughly 98 employees, while Kona Equity gives an unverified ~576 employees and ~$227M revenue. Public sources agree only that TRENDnet is an established, mid-sized private firm.
Products / operations. TRENDnet designs and sells wired and wireless networking and surveillance hardware for SMBs, enterprise/industrial, and home users. Its product lines include multi-gigabit, industrial and PoE network switches; fiber and Gigabit connectivity; wireless access points and routers; IP cameras and network video recorders (NVRs); power distribution; KVM switches; patch panels and cabling; Powerline adapters; print servers; and USB/connectivity accessories. It maintains branch offices in Europe, South America, and Asia and sells internationally. This is an operating company, not an NPE.
Litigation posture. The tracked data shows 1 case as defendant and 0 as plaintiff — the classic profile of an operating company being sued rather than asserting patents. The sole tracked matter is CommWorks Solutions, LLC v. TRENDnet, Inc. (No. 2:23-cv-08048, C.D. Cal., filed Sept. 26, 2023, before Judge Consuelo B. Marshall). CommWorks Solutions is a patent-assertion entity with roughly 29 tracked cases, most in the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas; the TRENDnet suit was filed in the Central District of California instead.
Case context. CommWorks asserted six wireless-networking patents (e.g., US 7,027,465; US RE44,904; US 7,177,285; US 6,891,807; US 7,463,596; US 7,911,979) against TRENDnet's Wi-Fi routers, access points, and gateways, naming the AC1200 TEW-813DRU and TEW-831DR as exemplary accused products and targeting WPS and WMM functionality. The parties resolved the case, which was dismissed with prejudice with each side bearing its own fees and costs — no merits ruling on validity or infringement was issued.
CommWorks sued TRENDnet in C.D. Cal.; the case was dismissed with prejudice with mutual costs. The accused TEW-813DRU line was at issue, and US 7,027,465 was asserted with RE44,904 and other companion patents.