Defendant
10 cases as defendant.
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ZTE Corporation (中兴通讯股份有限公司), commonly known as ZTE, is a Chinese telecommunications and information-technology equipment maker headquartered in Shenzhen's Nanshan district. It was founded on February 7, 1985, by Hou Weigui, and incorporated in 1997. It is publicly listed on both the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (000063.SZ) and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (0763.HK). Reported headcount is roughly 65,000–72,000 employees, and trailing revenue has been reported in the RMB 120–135 billion range (roughly US$17–20 billion) in recent fiscal years. No single controlling parent is reported in the sources reviewed.
ZTE designs, develops, manufactures, and sells ICT products and solutions across three reporting segments. Carrier networks covers wireless/RAN and 5G-A equipment, core networks, optical transport (400G OTN), 50G PON access, FTTR, microwave, and telecom software. Government and enterprise supplies servers, storage, data-center switches, distributed databases, cloud computing, and intelligent-computing infrastructure. Consumer covers smartphones (ZTE, nubia, and Red Magic gaming brands), 5G FWA/MBB mobile-internet devices, Wi-Fi 7 home terminals, and cloud PCs. ZTE is a substantial patent holder in its own right.
Litigation posture: In the tracked data ZTE appears once, solely as a defendant (0 plaintiff cases, 1 defendant case) — consistent with an operating company being targeted rather than an assertion entity. The sole tracked matter is a patent-infringement suit brought by Fundamental Innovation Systems International LLC (FISI), a Delaware-formed, Centerbridge-backed licensor asserting former BlackBerry USB-charging patents. FISI has filed roughly 20 such suits against handset and accessory makers, and the case was filed in the plaintiff-friendly Eastern District of Texas (Marshall) before being transferred to the N.D. Tex.
Notable case: In Fundamental Innovation Systems International LLC v. ZTE Corporation (originally 2:17-cv-00124, E.D. Tex.; renumbered 3:17-cv-01827, N.D. Tex.), FISI accused ZTE phones (Axon, Axon 7, ZMax, nubia Z9, Maven) and power adapters of infringing several USB-charging patents. ZTE petitioned for inter partes review of several asserted patents, with mixed institution results. The district court denied FISI's motion for partial summary judgment in November 2019; the parties settled in late 2019 and the case was dismissed with prejudice in January 2020.
Maxell asserted U.S. Patent 7,995,897 against ZTE entity defendants. The '897 patent appears in the AO-120 and consolidated P.R. 4-3 claim-construction record; final disposition was not verified.
Maxell, Ltd. sued ZTE Corporation and ZTE USA Inc. in the Eastern District of Texas, asserting U.S. 6,928,292. The case was coordinated with the Huawei case and closed in 2018.
Maxell sued ZTE in the Eastern District of Texas. The narrative lists this among the 2016 '760 litigation history, while noting the asserted-patent link to U.S. Patent 6,856,760 is unverified.
Maxell asserted eight patents, including U.S. Patent No. 8,098,695, against ZTE; the '695 patent was asserted against ZTE USA only. A jury found ZTE willfully infringed seven patents, including the '695 patent, and awarded $43.3 million; the case was terminated on March 11, 2019, under a confidential settlement.
SmartPhone Technologies LLC sued ZTE Corporation et al. in the Eastern District of Texas. Acacia Research Corp. reported that SmartPhone Technologies LLC and ZTE (USA) Inc. settled the dispute.
FISI sued ZTE entities in N.D. Tex. asserting the '586 patent. Summary-judgment briefing on validity occurred in 2019; later outcome not confirmed.
Earlier E.D. Tex. action listed in the patent family/litigation record. Per RPX, six patents including U.S. Patent No. 6,928,306 were previously asserted in this District against the Huawei/ZTE/ASUS group; the exact defendant mapping between -00033 and -00034 was not confirmed. A 2018 opinion, Maxell Ltd. v. Huawei Device U.S. Inc., 297 F. Supp. 3d 668, reflects claim-construction activity.
FISI asserted the '655 patent against ZTE by amended complaint served May 12, 2017. Originally filed in E.D. Tex., transferred to N.D. Tex. in June 2017. The action was settled and dismissed with prejudice on Jan. 3, 2020.
SmartPhone Technologies LLC filed a patent infringement action against ZTE Corporation and others in E.D. Tex. The narrative confirms the case number as a SmartPhone Technologies filing but provides no filing date, outcome, or additional asserted patents.
Stanford NPE Litigation Database lists this E.D. Tex. case as involving U.S. Patent 6,928,300. Defendants included ZTE Corporation, ZTE (USA), Inc., and ZTE Solutions Inc.; summonses were issued in 2012, an amended complaint was filed Aug. 24, 2012, and a 2013 claim-construction memorandum addressed the '316 and '236 patents. Final disposition of the '300 patent claims is unconfirmed.