Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Company overview. Technicolor USA, Inc. is a U.S. subsidiary of Vantiva SA (formerly Technicolor SA), the French multinational listed on Euronext Paris (ticker: VANTI). Vantiva rebranded from Technicolor in September 2022, after spinning off its visual-effects arm, Technicolor Creative Studios (Wikipedia/Forbes). U.S. operations are based in Norcross, Georgia; commercial databases list Technicolor USA, Inc. variously at Indianapolis, Indiana and Culver City, California, and I could not confirm its current registered address. In the 2022 N.D. Ga. case, both Technicolor USA and Technicolor Connected Home USA LLC disclosed Vantiva SA as corporate parent. Vantiva Group reported ~€2.9B revenue and ~16,700 employees for 2021 (pre-spin-off figures); IncFact estimates Technicolor USA alone at over $500M revenue and 1,000+ employees (statistical estimate, unverified).
Products / services. An operating company. Vantiva's Connected Home division designs and supplies customer premises equipment to telecom and cable operators: DOCSIS cable gateways/modems, Wi-Fi 7 gateways, Android TV set-top boxes, 5G fixed-wireless access CPE, and gateway-management apps. It acquired CommScope's Home Networks business in January 2024. Vantiva also operates Smart Spaces/HomeSight monitoring services; it sold its Supply Chain Solutions disc-manufacturing unit in April 2025 and its RCA trademark-licensing business in 2022.
Litigation posture. Purely a defendant — 0 plaintiff cases, 3 defendant cases in the tracked data — consistent with an operating company defending against NPE assertions. All three tracked suits are CommWorks Solutions, LLC infringement actions naming Technicolor USA, Inc. (and, in one, Technicolor Connected Home USA LLC). Filings include CommWorks Solutions, LLC v. Technicolor Connected Home USA LLC et al., No. 1:22-cv-02827 (N.D. Ga., filed 2022-07-18), plus companion suits in the Eastern District of Texas (a plaintiff-friendly venue) and C.D. Cal.
Notable cases / context. The N.D. Ga. action asserts Wi-Fi-related patents (U.S. 6,891,807; 7,463,596; RE44,904; 7,911,979; 7,027,465; 7,177,285) acquired from Intellectual Ventures, targeting dozens of Technicolor routers, gateways and access points; defendants answered in October 2022. CommWorks is an affiliate of IP Investments Group and is characterized as an NPE by Unified Patents, which has challenged its portfolio via reexamination and IPR. Technicolor sold its own patent-licensing business to InterDigital in 2018, leaving its operating units as litigation targets rather than asserters.