CommScope, Inc. of North Carolina

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CommScope, Inc. of North Carolina is a wholly owned U.S. operating subsidiary of CommScope Holding Company, Inc., the Hickory/Claremont, North Carolina–based network infrastructure group founded in 1976 by Frank M. Drendel. The parent was incorporated in Delaware in October 2010 and went public on Nasdaq (ticker COMM) on October 25, 2013, after a period of Carlyle Group ownership. The covered entity's registered address is 1100 CommScope Place SE, Hickory, NC. The parent reported roughly $4.21 billion in 2024 revenue with about 20,000 employees; a 2026 reorganization renamed the parent Vistance Networks, Inc. and moved its headquarters to Richardson, Texas, after the connectivity unit was sold to Amphenol.

CommScope manufactures communications network infrastructure rather than asserting patents for revenue. Product lines span fiber-optic and copper connectivity and cabling (SYSTIMAX, Uniprise, Propel fiber panels, Prodigy FTTH hardened connectivity), outdoor wireless (HELIAX cables, base-station and microwave antennas, distributed antenna systems, OneCell), and broadband access/video platforms (CMTS, FDX amplifiers, Aurora Networks). Its RUCKUS segment supplies Wi-Fi 7 access points, switches, and IoT/security software to enterprises. Customers are cable MSOs, telcos, data-center operators, and enterprises, with Comcast and Charter historically its largest.

Litigation posture: In the tracked data this entity appears only as a defendant (0 plaintiff cases, 1 defendant case). It is an operating company defending against a competitor's patent suit, not an NPE. That count understates the group's activity: affiliate CommScope Technologies LLC has filed inter partes reviews at the PTAB against the same patents, making the corporate family a two-way litigant. The matter is venued in the District of Delaware, not a plaintiff-friendly Texas venue.

Notable case: Belden Canada ULC v. CommScope, Inc. et al. (D. Del., No. 1:23-cv-00810-RGA, filed July 27, 2023, before Judge Richard G. Andrews). Belden asserts fiber-optic cassette/panel patents (U.S. 10,795,107; 11,435,542; 11,656,422; 11,740,423) against CommScope's Propel high-density fiber system. Judge Andrews stayed the case on September 4, 2024 pending PTAB inter partes review and administratively closed it; a related follow-on suit (No. 1:25-cv-00870) asserts additional Belden patents. Substantive claims remain unadjudicated.