Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Company overview. Universal Electronics Inc. (UEI) is a publicly traded company listed on NASDAQ under the ticker UEIC. Incorporated in Delaware in 1986, it is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona (with earlier principal offices in Santa Ana, California). Public sources report roughly 3,100 employees and trailing twelve-month revenue of about $355 million as of March 2026 (FY2025 revenue was approximately $368 million). It describes itself as a global leader in wireless universal control solutions for home entertainment and smart-home devices.
Products / operations. UEI designs, develops, manufactures, and supports hardware and software for device control and sensing. Major lines include radio-frequency (RF) and voice-enabled universal remote controls sold to video service providers and consumer-electronics OEMs; integrated circuits carrying its embedded software and universal device-control database; the QuickSet cloud-based setup and interoperability software; smart thermostats and climate-control solutions; wireless sensors for residential security and home automation; and audio-video accessories sold to retailers under the One For All brand, with Ecolink covering security/smart-home products. It also licenses its intellectual property to OEMs and video service providers and counts Comcast, Samsung, LG, Sony, and Daikin among customers.
Patent-litigation posture. UEI is an operating company and an active two-way patent litigant. In the tracked case data it appears once as plaintiff (a 2024 Federal Circuit appeal against Roku) and once as defendant (a 2022 PTAB inter partes review petitioned by Roku). The underlying dispute arose from UEI's August 2020 infringement suit against Roku in California federal court, paired with an ITC investigation — so the litigation cluster is in the ITC/Federal Circuit/PTAB rather than a plaintiff-friendly district like the Eastern District of Texas.
Notable context. The most prominent matter is Universal Electronics, Inc. v. Roku, Inc., where the Federal Circuit in January 2024 affirmed the ITC's limited exclusion order barring import/sale of certain Roku streaming products found to infringe UEI's U.S. Patent No. 10,593,196. In the parallel PTAB battles, Roku succeeded in invalidating some UEI remote-control patents (e.g., U.S. Patent No. 9,641,785) while losing on others, reflecting a sustained two-way fight over UEI's universal-remote and setup-technology portfolio.
Roku petitioned for inter partes review of the '276 patent. The PTAB instituted review and in a Final Written Decision determined that 14 challenged claims were unpatentable as obvious over Hart-787, Fu, and Rosenberg, while two claims were found not unpatentable but were not at issue on appeal.