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Technicolor Connected Home USA LLC is a Delaware limited liability company with its U.S. headquarters at 4855 Peachtree Industrial Blvd., Suite 200, Norcross, Georgia; it previously operated from Indianapolis, Indiana. It is a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of Vantiva SA (Euronext Paris: VANTI), the French group formerly named Technicolor SA, which the entity's own court disclosure statement identifies as its corporate parent. A Connecticut foreign-registration filing dated June 14, 2023 records a name change to Vantiva USA LLC. Parent-level figures, not subsidiary-specific: Vantiva reported roughly €2.9 billion in revenue for 2021 and about 4,550 employees in recent public profiles, with a market capitalization near €80 million in 2024.
The entity is the U.S. operating arm of Vantiva's Connected Home (customer premises equipment) division. It designs and supplies broadband modems and gateways (cable, xDSL, fiber), Wi-Fi gateways and extenders, and digital set-top boxes from standard- and high-definition through 4K/UHD and Android TV models, plus related software for Wi-Fi performance and smart-home/IoT applications. Disclosed customers have included Comcast, Charter, AT&T/DirecTV, Vodafone and Telefónica. FCC equipment authorizations in its name cover cable modems, transceivers and FM transmitters. It is an operating company with real hardware products, not a non-practicing entity.
Its litigation posture is purely defensive. Of the one tracked case, it is a defendant in one and a plaintiff in none — the profile of an operating company being attacked rather than a shell licensor asserting patents. CommWorks Solutions, LLC v. Technicolor Connected Home USA LLC et al., No. 1:22-cv-02827-SCJ, was filed July 18, 2022 in the Northern District of Georgia (the defendant's home district, not a plaintiff-favored venue such as the Eastern District of Texas). Co-defendant was affiliate Technicolor USA, Inc.
CommWorks is a non-practicing entity affiliated with Georgia-based IP Investments Group (later identified as Brainbox Innovations, LLC) that acquired Wi-Fi patents from Intellectual Ventures and has been targeted by Unified Patents ex parte reexamination challenges. The asserted patents (including Nos. 6,891,807; 7,177,285; 7,463,596; 7,911,979; 7,027,465; RE44,904) concern Wi-Fi Protected Setup and Wi-Fi Multimedia functionality, and the complaint accused dozens of Technicolor routers, gateways and access points. Technicolor answered on October 17, 2022; docket trackers now list the case as closed. Context: Technicolor sold its patent-licensing business to InterDigital in 2018, so patent assertion is not this entity's business.
CommWorks sued Technicolor entities in N.D. Ga. The narrative states the article asserted 'some of these same patents' but that US 7,027,465 was not expressly named and is unconfirmed in this case.