Plaintiff
4 cases as plaintiff.
Broadcom Corporation is the former Irvine, California–headquartered semiconductor company founded in 1991 by Henry Samueli and Henry Nicholas. It designed chips for wired and wireless communications from its 5300 California Avenue campus. In 2016 it was acquired by Avago Technologies in a roughly $37 billion cash-and-stock deal; the combined company took the Broadcom name, became Broadcom Limited (later Broadcom Inc., NASDAQ: AVGO), and is now headquartered in Palo Alto. Broadcom Corporation survives as an operating subsidiary of Broadcom Inc., not as a standalone public company. Parent-level scale (per Broadcom Inc.'s FY2024 results): about 37,000 employees and $51.6 billion revenue, with a market capitalization above $1 trillion at points in late 2024/2025.
Products / operations: Broadcom Corporation built communications semiconductors — set-top-box and cable/broadband SoCs, Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/GPS connectivity combos, Ethernet networking and switching silicon, RF filters and front-end components, and video/audio codec IP. Its set-top-box business was based in Irvine. The parent today also sells enterprise infrastructure software (VMware, CA, Symantec) and AI/data-center networking silicon.
Patent-litigation posture: Broadcom Corporation is an established operating company and a net patent enforcer, consistent with the case data: 3 plaintiff suits and 1 defendant matter. It asserts its own internally developed portfolio against large technology companies rather than acquiring patents to monetize. All three district court suits sit in the Central District of California — its home venue — not plaintiff-friendly venues such as the Eastern District of Texas, which is typical for operating-company enforcers rather than NPEs.
Notable tracked cases: Broadcom Corporation v. Sony Corporation (C.D. Cal., 8:16-cv-01052, filed June 2016) asserted roughly ten patents on AV decoding and related technology against Sony's PlayStation, Blu-ray and TV products; it closed in 2017. Broadcom Corporation v. Amazon.com, Inc. (C.D. Cal., 8:16-cv-01774, filed September 2016) asserted eleven patents, including U.S. 8,284,844 on multi-standard video decoding; Amazon filed PTAB inter partes reviews. Netflix, Inc. et al. v. Broadcom Corporation (PTAB, 2021) is a defendant-side matter in which Netflix challenged Broadcom video-encoding patents, paralleling Broadcom's set-top-box litigation against Netflix in the Northern District of California.
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Broadcom Corporation et al. sued Sony Corporation et al. in C.D. Cal.; the case prompted Sony IPR2017-00520, which settled, but the district outcome was not established.
Broadcom Corporation et al. sued Amazon.com, Inc. et al. in C.D. Cal.; the case prompted Amazon IPR2017-01816, which was dismissed, but the district outcome was not established.
Reported in the Stanford NPE Litigation Database as a case involving U.S. Patent 6,744,387, filed by Broadcom against Amazon.com, Inc. et al.; the full outcome was not captured and is unverified.
ITC Section 337 investigation initiated May 7, 2007, asserting six patents including U.S. Patent No. 6,606,346 against SiRF and other GPS device respondents. The ALJ and Commission found a violation as to all six patents, upheld Global Locate's standing to assert the '346 patent, and issued a limited exclusion order and cease-and-desist orders.