Toshiba America Business Solutions, Inc.

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Company overview. Toshiba America Business Solutions, Inc. ("TABS") is a U.S. sales, marketing, and service subsidiary of Tokyo-based Toshiba TEC Corporation (publicly traded in Japan). It was formed in October 1999 as an independent operating company of Toshiba Corporation. Its North American headquarters moved from Irvine, California, to 25530 Commercentre Drive, Lake Forest, California. The Orange County Business Journal reported roughly $1 billion in annual sales and about 2,700–2,800 employees across more than 100 U.S. offices plus a toner plant in Mitchell, South Dakota; Indeed lists the employee band at 1,001–5,000. These figures come from third-party/professional press estimates rather than audited filings for the subsidiary itself.

Products / services. TABS distributes and services office imaging and document hardware: copiers, multifunction printers (MFPs), printers, scanners, facsimiles, network controllers, and toner products. It also sells thermal bar-code and industrial label printers for supply chain, logistics, and retail applications, digital signage, and managed print/document services. Operations cover the U.S., Mexico, Brazil, Latin America, and the Caribbean, supported by its Toshiba Business Solutions dealer network. It is an operating company with real products and customers, not a licensing shell.

Patent-litigation posture. Across tracked cases TABS appears once, as a defendant, and never as plaintiff. That single defendant-side appearance is consistent with a large operating company being targeted rather than an entity asserting patents. The case was filed in the Central District of California — the defendant's home district — not a plaintiff-friendly venue such as the Eastern District of Texas.

Notable case. Monument Peak Ventures, LLC v. Toshiba America Business Solutions, Inc. et al., No. 8:19-cv-02181 (C.D. Cal., filed Nov. 11, 2019) also named Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. and Toshiba Corporation. Plaintiff MPV is characterized by Unified Patents and RPX as a non-practicing entity and Dominion Harbor affiliate asserting former Eastman Kodak digital-imaging patents acquired from Intellectual Ventures. The asserted patents concerned digital image capture/manipulation, facial recognition, and digital marketing. In August 2020 the district court granted the Toshiba defendants' motion holding the claims unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 101, entering judgment for Toshiba in September 2020; the Federal Circuit later affirmed.