Vimar SpA

Vimar SpA (commonly "Vimar") is an Italian electrical-equipment manufacturer headquartered at Viale Vicenza 14, Marostica (Vicenza), Italy. Founded 1 May 1945 by Walter Viaro and Francesco Gusi, it remains a privately held, family-controlled società per azioni; credit and registry records list Vimar Holding S.r.l. and Viaro S.r.l. as upstream shareholders. Italian registry and press figures report roughly €313–317 million in 2024–25 revenue and about 1,100–1,300 employees, with four plants in Marostica and sales subsidiaries in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. It is not publicly listed.

Products / operations. Vimar designs and manufactures low-voltage electrical and electronic equipment for residential and commercial buildings. Its lines include civil wiring series (Eikon, Linea, Arké, Plana, Idea), smart-home and building-automation systems (By-me / By-me Plus, View Wireless), video door-entry and intercom systems (Elvox; Due Fili Plus, IP and SIP), sockets/plugs and wiring infrastructure, energy-management and thermostat/thermoregulation devices, alarm and video-surveillance, emergency lighting, and EV-charging infrastructure. It reports roughly 15,000 catalogue items sold in about 100 countries and about 200 patent filings. This is an operating manufacturer, not a shell licensor.

Patent-litigation posture. Vimar has a single tracked appearance, as a defendant (0 as plaintiff): Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Vimar SpA, No. 6:22-cv-00971, W.D. Tex. That is the classic profile of an operating company targeted by a non-practicing entity rather than a two-way litigant.

Case context. Cedar Lane Technologies is a Canadian NPE (incorporated 2019, Nelson, BC) that asserts patents acquired from Intellectual Ventures and filed hundreds of suits, heavily concentrated in the Western District of Texas before Judge Alan Albright, represented by Rabicoff Law. In this case it asserted host-interface imaging-array patents (US 6,972,790 and US 8,537,242). The action was voluntarily dismissed under Rule 41(a)(1)(A)(i) before Vimar answered; no merits, validity or claim-construction ruling issued, and the patents remain assertable against other parties. Vimar made no defence filing on the public docket.